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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 23:14:32 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Re: SIGTERM does not stop backend postgres processes immediately
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In-Reply-To: <3AFF4B61.39A0B754@tpf.co.jp>; from Inoue@tpf.co.jp on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:05:05PM +0900

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:05:05PM +0900, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>>>>I know from inserting printfs into the backend code that the SIGTERM
>>>>signal handler function is not being called right after the stop
>>>>request.  Rather, it is called only after the backend gets some data
>>>>over its input socket connection, from that "\d" in did in pg_ctl in
>>>>this case.  It seems that the recv() call deep in the backend code does
>>>>not get interrupted by the SIGTERM.
>
>How about inserting a select() call before the recv() ?  Cygwin's
>select() is interruptible AFAIK.

That would be the "workaround" that I kept mentioning previously.  It
relies on polling and that is a something I'd rather avoid, if possible.

cgf

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