On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:18:34AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> I wonder if we should have a wrapper around WaitLatch() that documents >> that if the latch is set before the time expires, it will reset the >> latch and try again to wait for the remaining time, after checking for >> interrupts etc. > > Resetting the latch seems not very friendly for general-purpose use > ... although I guess we could set it again on the way out. > > BTW, we have an existing pg_sleep() function that deals with all > of this except re-setting the latch.
That seems workable. I think it might also need to accept a function pointer for custom interrupt checking (e.g., archiver code should use HandlePgArchInterrupts()). I'll put something together if that sounds alright. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
