On 24/08/10 04:08, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun ago 23 19:44:02 -0400 2010:
>> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>
>>> [ "latch" proposal ]
>>
>> This seems reasonably clean as far as signal conditions generated
>> internally to Postgres go, but I remain unclear on how it helps for
>> response to actual signals.
>
> This could probably replace the signalling between postmaster and
> autovac launcher, as well.
Hmm, postmaster needs to stay out of shared memory..
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