Re: psql not responding to SIGINT upon db reconnection

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 1:05 PM Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech> wrote:
> Sorry for taking a while to get back to y'all. I have taken your
> feedback into consideration for v9. This is my first time writing
> Postgres docs, so I'm ready for another round of editing :).

Yeah, that looks like it needs some wordsmithing yet. I can take a
crack at that at some point, but here are a few notes:

- "takes care of" and "working through the state machine" seem quite
vague to me.
- the meanings of forRead and forWrite don't seem to be documented.
- "retuns" is a typo.

> Robert, could you point out some places where comments would be useful
> in 0002? I did rename the function and moved it as suggested, thanks! In
> turn, I also realized I forgot a prototype, so also added it.

Well, for starters, I'd give the function a header comment.

Telling me that a 1 second timeout is a 1 second timeout is less
useful than telling me why we've picked a 1 second timeout. Presumably
the answer is "so we can respond to cancel interrupts in a timely
fashion", but I'd make that explicit.

It might be worth a comment saying that PQsocket() shouldn't be
hoisted out of the loop because it could be a multi-host connection
string and the socket might change under us. Unless that's not true,
in which case we should hoist the PQsocket() call out of the loop.

I think it would also be worth a comment saying that we don't need to
report errors here, as the caller will do that; we just need to wait
until the connection is known to have either succeeded or failed, or
until the user presses cancel.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com