Re: pg_usleep for multisecond delays

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 17:17, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:28:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > A quick grep for pg_usleep with large intervals finds rather more
> > than you touched:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Did you have reasons for excluding the rest of these?
>
> I'm still looking into each of these, but my main concerns were 1) ensuring
> latch support had been set up and 2) figuring out the right interrupt
> function to use. Thus far, I don't think latch support is a problem
> because InitializeLatchSupport() is called quite early. However, I'm not
> as confident with the interrupt functions yet. Some of these multisecond
> sleeps are done very early before the signal handlers are set up. Others
> are done within the sigsetjmp() block. And at least one is in a code path
> that both the startup process and single-user mode touch.

Is this still a WIP? Is it targeting this release? There are only a
few days left before the feature freeze. I'm guessing it should just
move to the next CF for the next release?

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Gregory Stark
As Commitfest Manager