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

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, exactly. Good news: you can now run queries on the standby.
Bad news: we've abandoned our policy of not releasing with known bugs.
Have fun and enjoy using PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open
source databSegmentation fault

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