Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> writes:
> AFAICT the custom select() implementation we are using for Windows could 
> easily be changed to mimic pselect() instead. Thus most reasonably 
> up-to-date Linux distributions plus Windows certainly provide a workable 
> pselect() syscall. Would it be worth using pselect() for those (and 
> maybe others that support pselect() appropriately)?

I don't entirely see the point of opening ourselves up to the risk of
using a pselect that's not safe under the hood.  In any case, on most
modern platforms poll() is preferable to any variant of select().

			regards, tom lane