Re: [HACKERS] PATCH: Keep one postmaster monitoring pipe per process

At Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:13:51 +0900 (Tokyo Standard Time), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote in <20181026(dot)141351(dot)09076928(dot)horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
> Thank you for the fix.
>
> At Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:26:37 +1300, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote in <CAEepm=3BxOHw63Anwyx=pyy7Ju8cW6T0ZXNeKQS=WZp80hv_rg(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:57 PM Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
> > <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> > > And don't we need a description about this restriction in the
> > > function comment?
> >
> > Ok, added.
>
> Thank you. It looks good.
>
> > While rebasing, I also changed WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH's means of exit
> > from exit(1) to proc_exit(1). In master we're quite inconsistent
> > about that as you can see from the lines removed by this patch, but
> > the comments for proc_exit() seem to insist that it is the one true
> > way out. Other than an elog(DEBUG3) message, the main difference
> > between proc_exit() and direct exit() seems to be the PROFILE_PID_DIR
> > stuff that changes directory on the way out the door for gprof users.
>
> It looks exactly like that for me, too.
>
> > It looks like per-pid gmon files could have been achieved by setting
> > environment variables[1][2], but I guess there is some value in doing
> > it the same way on every platform.
> >
> > [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=gmon/gmon.c;hb=HEAD#l354
> > [2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/gmon/gmon.c#L154
>
> Agreed. Anyway they don't allow the tweak for avworker.
>
> It seems fine for me. I'm going to mark this ReadyForCommitter
> after a few days of waiting for anyone who has more
> comments/opinions.
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/20/1618/

Seen no objection nor further comments. I marked this as "Ready
for Committer".

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center