Re: Streaming replication status

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-12T14:20:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 15:13, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure whether poll(2) should be called for this purpose. But
>>> poll(2) and select(2) seem to often come together in the existing code.
>>> We should follow such custom?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  poll() is usually more efficient, so it's preferred, but not all
>> platforms have it.  (On the other side, I think Windows might have
>> only poll and not select.)
>>
>>
>>
>
> No, other way around, I'm fairly sure.

Yeah, the emulation layer has select, not poll. It basically
translates the select into what looks very much like a poll, so maybe
we should consider implementing poll as well/instead. But for now,
select() is what we have.

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