On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Another simple fix is to make walsender send SIGUSR1 to postmaster
>>> so that it calls PostmasterStateMachine() in sigusr1_handler(), when it
>>> marks itself as walsender. The attached patch does this. Thought?
>>
>> That looks OK to me. Have you tested it?
>
> Yes. I added the sleep just before MarkPostmasterChildWalSender() in
> walsender.c,
> compiled, started replication, and then requested smart shutdown as soon as
> walsender was forked (i.e., during the sleep). Without the patch, the server got
> stuck infinitely. With the patch, smart shutdown worked as expected.
Cool. Committed.
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