Re: Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history
Date: 2001-01-26 21:33:36
Message-ID: 3924.980544816@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM> writes:
>> What I'd like to look at sometime soon is using POSIX semaphores
>> instead of SysV semaphores. But we need stateful semaphores,
>> not signals.

> Conditional variables seem to be more portable

Really? Which standard are they specified in?

I have no intention of removing the SysV sem support, mind you;
I just think it might be good to have an alternative implementation
that relies on a more modern standard ...

regards, tom lane

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