| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Escaping from blocked send() reprised. |
| Date: | 2014-09-02 19:05:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20140902190517.GD28635@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-09-02 21:01:44 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> I've actually been working on a patch to make the whole interaction with
> the client using sockets. The reason I started so is that we lots of far
> to complex stuff in signal handlers, and using a latch would allow us to
> instead interrupt send/recv. While still heavily WIP the reduction in
> odd stuff (check e.g. HandleCatchupInterrupt()) made me rather happy.
Actually, the even more important reason is that that would allow us to
throw errors/fatals sanely in interrupts because we wouldn't possibly
jump through openssl anymore...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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