Re: walreceiver is uninterruptible on win32

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 13:54, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If it does, there should be
>>> some way to get PGXS to execute that rule as well, I'm sure.
>>
>> If we can copy/link the source file defining "new PQexec" when
>> we compile the dblink, DLL doesn't seem to be required. So I
>> stop creating new DLL for PGXS.
>
> On second thought, ISTM that we cannot use any source files which exist
> in places other than contrib/dblink and installation directory when we
> compile dblink under USE_PGXS=1. But we can put the file implementing
> new PQexec on those neither. So I'm thinking again that it should be
> provided as the shared library and be linked from walreceiver and dblink.
> Is this right?
>
> If adding new shared library is too big change at this point, I think
> that we should postpone the fix only for dblink to 9.1 or later. Since
> no one has complained about this long-term problem of dblink, I'm not
> sure it really should be fixed right now. Thought?

+1. Let's fix walreceiver for now, and we can revisit dblink later.
Since we haven't had any complaints so far...

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