Tom Lane wrote:
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>>if i do it a second time in the same session, blockme() never returns
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>>I wonder if handle_sig_alarm is re-armed after being used
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>No. Why should the signal handler need re-arming?
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>>or if sleep is used anywhere in the backend.
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>Nope.
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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