Re: BUG #17073: docs - "Improve signal handling reliability"

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, lizenko79(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #17073: docs - "Improve signal handling reliability"
Date: 2021-07-01 02:41:40
Message-ID: bd94efd2-7d1e-569b-dc0e-dc0f458f7c00@oss.nttdata.com
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On 2021/07/01 10:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Jun-30, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 5:54 PM Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>
>>> Since this explains the commit 2945a488a, it's better to describe
>>> something like the following?
>
>> The wording still needs some work...but is this even release note worthy?
>>
>> We forget to check for interrupts before sleeping in an otherwise busy-wait
>> loop. We corrected the oversight.
>
> Yeah, it's a good question. I wonder if this should be back-patched, so
> it'd be noted as a bugfix in the next set of minors rather than as a new
> feature for 14.

Yes. I'm not sure why I did not back-patch the change, but IMO it's worth doing that.
Barring any objection, I will do that.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION

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