Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Denis Laxalde <denis(dot)laxalde(at)dalibo(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "Gregory Stark (as CFM)" <stark(dot)cfm(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jelte Fennema <Jelte(dot)Fennema(at)microsoft(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Etsuro Fujita <etsuro(dot)fujita(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel
Date: 2024-03-28 17:53:30
Message-ID: 202403281753.ku5k2jvaw5fo@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Mar-28, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> writes:
>
> > I think we don't really want to make the timeout too short. Otherwise
> > the query might get cancelled before we push any query down to the
> > FDW. I guess that means that for some slow machines even 10ms is not
> > enough to make the test do the intended purpose. I'd keep it at 10ms,
> > which seems long enough for normal systems, while still being pretty
> > short.
>
> If the test fails both when the machine is too slow and when it's
> too fast, then there's zero hope of making it stable and we should
> just remove it.

It doesn't fail when it's too fast -- it's just that it doesn't cover
the case we want to cover.

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