Re: Process wakeups when idle and power consumption

On 9 May 2011 11:19, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> Can't we use the pipe trick on Windows? The API is different, but we use
> pipes on Windows for other things already. When a process is launched, open
> a pipe between postmaster and the child process. In the child, spawn a
> thread that just calls ReadFile() on the pipe, which blocks. If postmaster
> dies, the ReadFile() call will return with an error.

Alright. I'm currently working on a proof-of-concept implementation of
that. In the meantime, any thoughts on how this should meld with the
existing latch implementation?

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