Re: Streaming Replication on win32

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:30, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> This could be because the win32 socket emulation layer simply wasn't
>>> designed to deal with non-blocking sockets. Specifically, it actually
>>> *always* sets the socket to non-blocking mode, and then uses that to
>>> properly emulate how sockets work under unix.
>>
>> I presume the win32 emulation layer can be taught about non-blocking
>> sockets? Or maybe pq_getbyte_if_available() can be implemented using
>> some other simpler method on Windows.
>
> How about checking the socket by using select/poll before calling
> pq_getbyte_if_available()? This would prevent pgwin32_recv() from
> being blocked because a message is guaranteed to have already arrived.
> When the renegotiation happens, SSL_read (instead of pqwin32_recv())
> is called with non-blocking socket, so it's not blocked.

SSL_read calls into pqwin32_recv(), so you have the same problem. (see
my_sock_read() and my_sock_write() in be-secure.c)

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