Re: Synchronous replication: sleeping

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Synchronous replication: sleeping
Date: 2008-12-08 11:42:07
Message-ID: 20081208114207.GE31566@svana.org
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:12:39PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> If a signal is received just before pq_wait call, after checking
> replication_requested, pq_wait won't be interrupted and will wait up to
> a second before responding to it.
>
> BTW, on what platforms signal doesn't interrupt sleep?

In theory, none. SIGALRM is not set as SA_RESTART so any system call
should be interrupted. This applies to POSIX systems though, not sure
about Windows.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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