Re: pgkill

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

James Mansion <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com> writes:
> I was looking at the notify processing in async.c and I noticed that 
> kill is called whether or not the
> process has been signalled already, and whether or not 'this' process 
> has signalled the process.

> It seems unecessary to me -

It's not that easy to be sure of either of those conditions.

The notify code needs to be dumped and rewritten from scratch
--- I see little point in marginal optimizations, and none at
all in doing anything while the pg_listener table is still used
as communication mechanism.

			regards, tom lane