Re: Some 9.5beta2 backend processes not terminating properly?

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I wonder if we ought to backport this further: e.g. walsender
> > continously uses nonblocking sockets via pq_getbyte_if_available(). On
> > the other hand I can't immediately see a problem with that, besides
> > differing messages on windows/the rest of the world.
>
> I'm slightly worried about breaking 3rd-party code that might be using
> recv() and somehow expecting the current behavior. However, it's equally
> arguable that such code would have Windows-specific problems that would be
> fixed by the patch. Now that we've seen a successful round of buildfarm
> results, I'd be okay with back-patching 90e61df8 personally.
>
> Any other opinions out there?
>

Maybe holdoff until the release with the new code has been out for a while,
but make sure we get it into the next set of minors? That'll give us at
least some real world deployment to notice any issues with it?

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