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

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-24T08:42:49Z
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On 24/08/10 04:08, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun ago 23 19:44:02 -0400 2010:
>> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  writes:
>
>>> [ "latch" proposal ]
>>
>> This seems reasonably clean as far as signal conditions generated
>> internally to Postgres go, but I remain unclear on how it helps for
>> response to actual signals.
>
> This could probably replace the signalling between postmaster and
> autovac launcher, as well.

Hmm, postmaster needs to stay out of shared memory..

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