Re: pg_basebackup may fail to send feedbacks.

Hi,

15 19:48:23 +0900 (Tokyo Standard Time), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote in <20150210(dot)194823(dot)219136034(dot)horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
> Considering pg_basebackup/receivexlog, the loop in receivelog.c
> does not maintain the time value within it, so I think we are
> forced to use feGetCurrentTimeStamp if not using SIGALRM. The wal
> reading function simply gets the data from the buffer in memory
> for most calls so the gettimeofday for each iteration could slow
> the process significantly. SIGALRM seems to be valuable for the
> case.

As a very fancy and ugly sample, the attached patch does this,
although, I'm a bit at a loss how to make this signal things to
be more sober..

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center