Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> [ shrug... ]  I stated before that the Hot Standby patch is doing
>>> utterly unsafe things in signal handlers.  Simon rejected that.
>>> I am waiting for irrefutable evidence to emerge from the field
>>> (and am very confident that it will be forthcoming...) [...]
> 
>> [...]Why are
>> we releasing 9.0 with this problem again?  Surely this is nuts.

Will the docs give enough info so that release note readers
will know when they're giving well-informed consent to volunteer
to produce such field evidence?