Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> ... Another idea
> is to send a signal to each backend that has marked a bit in shared
> memory saying it has written to a relation, and have the signal handler
> fsync all its dirty relations, set a finished bit, and have the
> postmaster then fsync pglog.
One other problem with signals is that things get complicated if
PostgreSQL ever moves to a multi-threading model.
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