Re: EINTR error in SunOS

"Greg Stark"  wrote
>
> Well NFS is only going to affect filesystem calls. If there are other 
> syscalls
> that can signal EINTR on some obscure platform where Postgres isn't 
> handling
> it then that's just a run-of-the-mill porting issue.
>

Ok, NFS just affects filesystem calls(I mix it with another problem). If 
possible, I hope we can draw some conclusion / schetch a fix plan here for 
future developers who want to come up with a patch. The question is:
   Where and how should we fix exactly in order to incorporate intr NFS in 
server side?

More details we write down here, more feasible/infeasible plan we can get. I 
could think of these places:

+ direct file system calls   - open() family, fopen() family in backend/storage   - scattered open() etc in the whole backend (seems unlink is with 
biggest problem)

The problem of above is if a signal sneaks in, these syscalls will fail. 
With a retry, we can fix it.

+ indirect file system calls   - system("xxx") calls, xxx = cp, etc.

If intr NFS is enabled, what's the problem exactly?


Any others?

Regards,
Qingqing