How about the typical answer on Windows ? Create an invisible Window
with an Event Handler and pass it a windows message ?
Andreas
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If you need a response once it has actually run, then the
main thread
needs to do signal polling now and then. This has the bad
sideeffect
that the main thread will block completely until the signal is
delivered, which might be a while.
I don't know what the semantics are for
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From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:53 AM
To: Andrew Dunstan; PostgreSQL-development; pgsql-hackers-win32
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch
If you need a response once it has
Magnus Hagander wrote:
Absolutely, but there are other signals to send, no? Or you might want
to send a signal directly to a backend (to cancel for example), as you
can do on Unix.
In normal operation the only thing that should be signalling a backend
is the postmaster.
cheers
andrew
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In normal operation the only thing that should be signalling a
backend is the postmaster.
Oh? What about LISTEN/NOTIFY?
-Neil
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Neil Conway kirjutas K, 17.12.2003 kell 00:37:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In normal operation the only thing that should be signalling a
backend is the postmaster.
Oh? What about LISTEN/NOTIFY?
IIRC cancelling queries is done by making a connection to a new backend
and then
Neil Conway said:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In normal operation the only thing that should be signalling a
backend is the postmaster.
Oh? What about LISTEN/NOTIFY?
er, yeah. *self-lart*
+ ... or another backend
cheers
andrew
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Have you looked at the CONNX signal code on the Win32 page:
http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
It uses shared memory and events.
Yes, and I just did again. I guess I must be missing something, though -
