Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Command Prompt, Inc(dot)" <pgsql-general(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Steve Lane <slane(at)fmpro(dot)com>, jlx(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?
Date: 2002-05-23 14:49:13
Message-ID: 5589.1022165353@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> My 'standard' way of doing this is to loop while the error is EAGAIN
> but with a small retry counter to limit the number of attempts
> made. Hopefully the second time through the call isn't interrupted
> again.

I think you're thinking of EINTR, not EAGAIN.

regards, tom lane

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