Index: src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c,v
retrieving revision 1.117
diff -c -c -r1.117 pgstat.c
*** src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c	3 Jan 2006 16:42:17 -0000	1.117
--- src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c	3 Jan 2006 19:52:14 -0000
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*** 1871,1884 ****
  	msgbuffer = (char *) palloc(PGSTAT_RECVBUFFERSZ);
  
  	/*
- 	 * Wait for some work to do; but not for more than 10 seconds. (This
- 	 * determines how quickly we will shut down after an ungraceful
- 	 * postmaster termination; so it needn't be very fast.)
- 	 */
- 	timeout.tv_sec = 10;
- 	timeout.tv_usec = 0;
- 
- 	/*
  	 * Loop forever
  	 */
  	for (;;)
--- 1871,1876 ----
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*** 1918,1923 ****
--- 1910,1924 ----
  				maxfd = writePipe;
  		}
  
+ 		/*
+ 		 * Wait for some work to do; but not for more than 10 seconds. (This
+ 		 * determines how quickly we will shut down after an ungraceful
+ 		 * postmaster termination; so it needn't be very fast.)  struct timeout
+ 		 * is modified by some operating systems.
+ 		 */
+ 		timeout.tv_sec = 10;
+ 		timeout.tv_usec = 0;
+ 
  		if (select(maxfd + 1, &rfds, &wfds, NULL, &timeout) < 0)
  		{
  			if (errno == EINTR)