Re: possible bug not in open items

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: possible bug not in open items
Date: 2009-03-27 21:07:57
Message-ID: 1238188077.5525.3.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com
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On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm not too familiar with this code, but I think we could just enable
> > ImmediateInterruptOK in CopyGetData().
>
> Only if you are wanting to break things.
>
> The reason we don't allow client read to be interrupted is the fear of
> losing protocol sync on an incomplete message. For the SIGTERM case
> this would (probably) be okay, since we aren't going to pay any more
> attention to the client anyway, but accepting SIGINT there is right out.
>

That's perfectly acceptable to me. I'm only concerned about the shutdown
case, and that's the only case that's in conflict with the docs.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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