Re: Reducing pg_ctl's reaction time

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2017-06-27 14:59:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If we decide that it has to wait for v11,
>> I'd address Jeff's complaint by hacking the loop behavior in
>> test_postmaster_connection, which'd be ugly but not many lines of code.

> Basically increasing the wait time over time?

I was thinking of just dropping back to once-per-second after a couple
of seconds, with something along the lines of this in place of the
existing sleep at the bottom of the loop:

if (i >= 2 * WAITS_PER_SEC)
{
pg_usleep(USEC_PER_SEC);
i += WAITS_PER_SEC - 1;
}
else
pg_usleep(USEC_PER_SEC / WAITS_PER_SEC);

> The 8-space thing in multiple places is a bit ugly. How about having a
> a bunch of constants declared in one place? Alternatively make it
> something like: status: $c, where $c is a one character code for the
> various states?

Yeah, we could add the string values as macros in miscadmin.h, perhaps.
I don't like the single-character idea --- if we do expand the number of
things reported this way, that could get restrictive.

regards, tom lane