Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)
Date: 2010-09-03 19:11:58
Message-ID: 4C81487E.8060906@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> [ shrug... ] I stated before that the Hot Standby patch is doing
>>> utterly unsafe things in signal handlers. Simon rejected that.
>>> I am waiting for irrefutable evidence to emerge from the field
>>> (and am very confident that it will be forthcoming...) [...]
>
>> [...]Why are
>> we releasing 9.0 with this problem again? Surely this is nuts.

Will the docs give enough info so that release note readers
will know when they're giving well-informed consent to volunteer
to produce such field evidence?

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