On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Shall we add "volatile" quanlifier to at least pg_signal_queue? > > > > If that's changed by a separate thread, "volatile" seems essential. > > What about the mask variable? > > Yes, that does seem right. Previously it would never be concurrently > modified, because it was always locked by the critical section, but now > we read it without locking, and we certainly don't want that optimized > away. > > The mask is only ever written by the main thread, never by the signal > dispatching thread. So I think that one could do without. > Agreed. Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
