| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Mathias Hasselmann <mathias(at)openismus(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Murray Cumming <murrayc(at)openismus(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql |
| Date: | 2008-02-25 17:32:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20080225173255.GH15597@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> > Hmm, a quick look at the third patch reveals that it is using the
> > "threaded" Avahi client. That's a showstopper.
>
> Could you elaborate why that is?
Because it creates a new thread under the Postmaster to handle Avahi
events, if I'm reading the Avahi docs right. This is verboten.
We have an event loop in the postmaster -- see ServerLoop. Is there a
reason the Avahi events could not be hooked in there?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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