Re: Latch for the WAL writer - further reducing idle wake-ups.

On 9 May 2012 00:21, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Yes, there is some checking of flags before the potential ResetLatch()
> call, which may be acted on. The code there is almost identical to
> that of the extant bgwriter code. I was under the impression that this
> did not amount to a race, though it's rather late now, and I'm feeling
> under the weather, so I have not taken steps to verify that I have it
> right. Arguably, you'd want somebody's SetLatch call to be ignored if

Sent too early. That should be: Arguably, you'd want somebody's
SetLatch call to be ignored under the circumstances that that could
happen in both the bgwriter, and the WALWriter within my recent patch.

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