Re: Unixware 714 pthreads

Sorry to follow up my own post.

I made some more tests:
create table foo (f1 int) -- for it not to be removed if if kill the
process

each time I do:
psql template1
template1# set statement_timeout=1000;
SET
template1 select block_me();

it works ok

if i do it a second time in the same session, blockme() never returns

I wonder if handle_sig_alarm is re-armed after being used or if sleep is
used anywhere in the backend.

Unixware doc for setitimer
(http://www.pyrenet.fr:8458/en/man/html.3C/getitimer.3C.html)
says that "A sleep following a setitimer wipes out knowledge of the user
signal handler"

What can I do next?

Regards
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:

> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:01:45 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.hackers
> Subject: Re: Unixware 714 pthreads
>
> Dear Bruce,
>
> Thanks for your reply, I was desperate I did'nt get one!
>
> As I said, I'm quite sure there is a bug in pthread library, Before saying
> this to SCO, I have to prove it. Postgresql is the way to prove it!
>
> What I need is to know where to start from (I'd like to put elogs where
> statement_timeout is processed to see what really happens and why it
> doesn't cancel the query).
>
> Could someone tell me where to look for? If anyone is interessed in
> debugging this issue with me, I can set up an account on a test unixware
> machine.
>
> TIA
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
> > To: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Unixware 714 pthreads
> >
> >
> > The only help I can be is that on Unixware (only) the backend is
> > compiled with threading enabled. This might be showing some thread
> > bugs.
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:
> > > Hi every one,
> > >
> > > I need help to debug the problem I have on Unixware 714 and beta3.
> > > postgresql make check hangs on plpgsql test when compiled with
> > > --enable-thread-safty.
> > >
> > > It does hang on select block_me();
> > >
> > > This select should be canceled by the set statement_timeout=1000, instead,
> > > the backend is 100% CPU bound and only kill -9 can kill it.
> > >
> > > It works ok when compiled without -enable-thread-safty.
> > >
> > > I've tried almost every thing I could think of, but not knowing so much
> > > about threads and PG source code, I request that someone can help me as to
> > > find a way to debug this. It worked up until beta2, but I'm not sure
> > > block_me()was there.
> > >
> > > I really need someone to tell me where to begin.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
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