Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:29 +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Instead of that, undo the original optimizations that threw away
>> QueryCancelPending anytime we were starting or finishing a command
>> read, and instead discard the cancel request within ProcessInterrupts
>> if we find that there is no HS reason for forcing a cancel and we are
>> DoingCommandRead.
> Is there a reason why we are calling DisableNotifyInterrupt() and
> DisableCatchupInterrupt() before we call ProcessInterrupts() and again
> within it?
Different purposes. ProcessInterrupts is called from a lot of places
and should not assume the status of those flags --- in particular, if it
is called directly from the signal handler while we are waiting for a
command, those disables are needed because the interrupts are active.
The call site you are probably looking at is where we are exiting the
active-command-read state, and we want to disable the interrupts before
beginning active processing, whether or not there is any cancel interrupt
waiting.
regards, tom lane