Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid extra locks in GetSnapshotData if old_snapshot_threshold <

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid extra locks in GetSnapshotData if old_snapshot_threshold <
Date: 2016-04-12 17:31:09
Message-ID: 20160412173109.GA920396@alvherre.pgsql
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Kevin Grittner wrote:

> FWIW, I spent a fair amount of time trying to make it PGC_SIGHUP,
> since it would be very nice to allow that; but I kept running into
> one problem after another with it, some of which were very hard to
> see how to fix. My inclination is that trying to comment all the
> places that would need something done if we do this in some later
> release would be distracting until such time as we get there, and
> might give a false sense of security to anyone who fixes all the
> places the comments were scattered.

Okay, that's fair.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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