On 2014-09-02 21:01:44 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > I've actually been working on a patch to make the whole interaction with > the client using sockets. The reason I started so is that we lots of far > to complex stuff in signal handlers, and using a latch would allow us to > instead interrupt send/recv. While still heavily WIP the reduction in > odd stuff (check e.g. HandleCatchupInterrupt()) made me rather happy.
Actually, the even more important reason is that that would allow us to throw errors/fatals sanely in interrupts because we wouldn't possibly jump through openssl anymore... Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
