Tom Lane wrote:
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if i do it a second time in the same session, blockme() never returns
I wonder if handle_sig_alarm is re-armed after being used
No. Why should the signal handler need re-arming?
or if sleep is used anywhere in the backend.
Nope.
Actually, I just noticed that postmaster/pg_arch.c has a call to sleep() that needs to be removed ... I guess it snuck in after all that stuff was adjusted.
cheers
andrew
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