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Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: "Command Prompt, Inc." <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com>, Steve Lane <slane@fmpro.com>, jlx@commandprompt.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-05-23T14:49:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-sql 
"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> My 'standard' way of doing this is to loop while the error is EAGAIN
> but with a small retry counter to limit the number of attempts
> made. Hopefully the second time through the call isn't interrupted
> again.

I think you're thinking of EINTR, not EAGAIN.

			regards, tom lane