Re: WAL fsync scheduling

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

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

To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2000-11-18T18:19:32Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>>>>> how about sigpause, and using SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2 to wake them up ? 

> The standard is sigsuspend:

OK, we can probably assume that at least one of sigsuspend or sigpause
is available everywhere.  Now all you need is a free signal number.
Unfortunately we're already using both SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2.

			regards, tom lane