Re: should check interrupts in BuildRelationExtStatistics ?

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> How long can the backend remain unresponsive?  I don't think that
> anybody would object to the addition of some CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() in
> areas where it would be efficient to make the shutdown quicker, but
> we need to think carefully about the places where we'd want to add
> these.

CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS is really quite cheap, just a test-and-branch.
I wouldn't put it in a *very* tight loop, but one test per row
processed while gathering stats is unlikely to be a problem.

			regards, tom lane