Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun ago 23 19:44:02 -0400 2010:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > [ "latch" proposal ]
>
> This seems reasonably clean as far as signal conditions generated
> internally to Postgres go, but I remain unclear on how it helps for
> response to actual signals.
This could probably replace the signalling between postmaster and
autovac launcher, as well.
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