Re: somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>
> Am 07.12.2004 um 19:24 schrieb Tom Lane:
>
> > Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm(at)mock-software(dot)de> writes:
> >> By the way: Do you have an idea about a small or
> >> medium sized task from the TODO-List for a newbee, which gets me up to
> >> speed?(!Win32)
> >
> > A lot of the tasks listed under DATA TYPES are fairly self-contained
> > problems ... but what draws your interest? I think most of the tasks
> > that are on TODO are there either because they're hard problems, or
> > because nobody was very interested in them. Unfortunately they are not
> > marked as to which is which :-(. Make a list of things you find
> > interesting, and we can tell you if they're very hard or already
> > claimed.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> >
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> this is a list of things I'm interested in:
>
> 1) Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
>
> Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
> though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
> cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination.

This one seems hard.

> 2) Add a function that returns the 'uptime' of the postmaster

Seems like a good starting point.

> 3) Have SHOW ALL and pg_settings show descriptions for server-side
> variables

Also a good one for you.

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