Re: signal and startup process

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: signal and startup process
Date: 2010-10-14 18:17:58
Message-ID: 1287080278.1725.1092.camel@ebony
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Committed.

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:57 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It takes nonsensically extra several seconds to shut down the standby server.
> This is because the startup process cannot respond immediately the SIGTERM
> signal sent by postmaster for the shutdown while it's sleeping on WaitLatch.
> This delays the shutdown for up to the sleep time on WaitLatch (currently
> 5 seconds).
>
> The signal handlers of the startup process should call SetLatch to respond
> the signals even while it's sleeping on WaitLatch, like those of walsender
> already do. The attached patch does this.
>
> Regards,
>

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