Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion
Date: 2014-11-01 21:00:59
Message-ID: CA+TgmobxPPj3ntXoYk+RtTfVc8HN1pW=bAdQ=KoN565FLzC=WQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I doubt it. There's a whole bunch of problems that just exist by virtue
> of having a group leader. What if the leader dies but the worker backend
> isn't in a section of code that does a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS()?

In between all of the heat about whether I'm writing the correct
patch, or whether I'm overall making progress fast enough, somebody
could, I don't know, read the patch.

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

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