Re: shm_mq_wait_internal gets stuck forever on fast shutdown

On 21 August 2017 at 21:44, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> While this would work, I don't really see the need for it given the
> availability of nonblocking operations. See mq_putmessage() for an
> example.
>

Makes sense, and I'm not especially concerned. If the expected solution to
such usage is to use non-blocking calls, that's fine with me.

I partly wanted to put this out there to help the next person looking into
it. Or myself, when I've forgotten and go looking again ;) . But also, to
ensure that this was in fact fully expected behaviour not an oversight re
applying shm_mq to non-bgworker endpoints.

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