Re: Question on win32 semaphore simulation

> > Looking at the code, it looks fairly complex to me. I don't really
> > know how sysv semaphores are supposed to work, or how we
> use them, but
> > perhaps the whole piece of code can be simplified?
>
> I'm not sure why the win32 port chose to emulate the SysV
> semaphore interface anyway. You could equally well have used
> the Posix interface (src/backend/port/posix_sema.c). Or,
> given Microsoft's NIH tendencies, you might have needed to
> write a third implementation of the pg_sema.h interface ...
> but it'd likely still be no larger than win32/sema.c ...

I think that's a leftover from that code coming from a time when we
didn't have an abstraction for semaphores. Specifically, it may have
come out of the peerdirect port with was IIRC 7.3.

Going with the third option might be a good idea - win32 *does* have
native semaphores, and most of the work appears to be first adapting our
need to sysv, then adapting sysv to win32. Worth looking at I guess.

//Magnus