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Re: kqueue

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-04-21T18:15:53Z
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On the WaitEventSet thread I posted a small patch to add kqueue
> support[1].  Since then I peeked at how some other software[2]
> interacts with kqueue and discovered that there are platforms
> including NetBSD where kevent.udata is an intptr_t instead of a void
> *.  Here's a version which should compile there.  Would any NetBSD
> user be interested in testing this?  (An alternative would be to make
> configure to test for this with some kind of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE
> incantation but the steamroller cast is simpler.)

Did you code this up blind or do you have a NetBSD machine yourself?

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Add kqueue(2) support to the WaitEventSet API.

  2. Add WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH pseudo-event.

  3. Be conservative about alignment requirements of struct epoll_event.

  4. Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.