Re: group locking: incomplete patch, just for discussion

On 2014-11-01 17:00:59 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > I doubt it. There's a whole bunch of problems that just exist by virtue
> > of having a group leader. What if the leader dies but the worker backend
> > isn't in a section of code that does a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS()?
> 
> In between all of the heat about whether I'm writing the correct
> patch, or whether I'm overall making progress fast enough, somebody
> could, I don't know, read the patch.

I plan to, but that takes a fair amount of time. And there's at least
one patch of yours ahead in the queue... And I do think that most of the
concerns are more general than a specific implementation.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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