Re: Latch-ifying the syslogger process

On 05/12/2012 04:00 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 05/12/2012 03:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I noticed a large oversight in our efforts to reduce the server's idle
>> wakeup frequency: if you've got logging_collector turned on, the
>> syslogger process will wake up once a second, whether it has anything
>> to do or not. But the only reasons it has for waking up are signals,
>> data arrival, and time-based logfile rotation, and it is easy to
>> calculate the time until the next logfile rotation event. So this
>> seems really easy to latch-ify, and I would like to apply the attached
>> patch if there are not objections. I do not however have the ability
>> to test the Windows side of it, so it'd be nice if someone would check
>> that that still works (particularly, that it shuts down cleanly).
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> I can do that. I'm doing some Windows investigation ATM so this won't
> be hard to add on to it.
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> It's worth pointing out that the buildfarm client doesn't currently
> test the syslogger at all. It probably should, at least optionally.
> That wouldn't be too hard to arrange. A SMOP :-)
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Everything looks kosher on my Windows machine (tested both MSVC and
Mingw64 builds)

cheers

andrew