Re: background sessions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Borodin <amborodin(at)acm(dot)org>, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: background sessions
Date: 2017-03-14 23:44:34
Message-ID: CA+TgmobBD7ExfwXzogXkiR9fHv1EeZjcLRn5OipSr5L5+jpJQw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I don't understand. The only way you'd need a server restart is if a
>> background process wasn't responding to SIGTERM, and that's a bug
>> independent of anything this patch does. It would be cause by the
>> background process not doing CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() or the moral
>> equivalent regularly.
>
> It is bug, and I don't know if it s this extension bug or general bug.
>
> There is not adequate cleaning after killing.
>
> How can be implemented pg_cancel_backend on background process if there are
> not CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS?

You can't. But what does that have to do with this patch?

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Robert Haas
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