Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Introduce WaitEventSet API.

2016-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > Introduce WaitEventSet API. Buildfarm member gaur has a quibble with this patch: latch.c:1095: warning: `WaitEventSetWaitBlock' declared inline after being called Please rearrange the file so that the inline function definitions appear first. Also, why is it that only

[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Introduce WaitEventSet API.

2016-03-21 Thread Andres Freund
Introduce WaitEventSet API. Commit ac1d794 ("Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.") introduced a regression on, at least, large linux systems. Constantly adding the same postmaster_alive_fds to the OSs internal datastructures for implementing poll/select can cause significant contention