Re: Notify enhancement

Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Are we keeping use of SIGUSR2 in this scheme?
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>> What for?  Just protect the write pointer with a lwlock and have
>> listeners check whether somebody has written something.
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> You do want something comparable to SIGUSR2 to prod active backends to
> consume messages, in case they are busy doing a query and hence not
> checking the ring.  I'm envisioning something like having the SIGUSR2
> signal handler set a flag that's checked by CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(),
> and if set then ProcessInterrupts will go off and absorb messages.
> Onlookers can tell who's falling behind by noting where their read
> pointers are, and can issue SIGUSR2 to the laggards --- in particular,
> any backend that finds itself unable to insert a NOTIFY into the ring
> for lack of space can SIGUSR2 the laggards and then sleep a little.
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I just wondered idly if we could piggyback on the existing 
WAKEN_CHILDREN/SIGUSR1 mechanism? It might mean we signal more children 
than necessary, but most won't have much to do anyway.

cheers

andrew