On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:23 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > How necessary is this given the recent fixes to allow the stats file to > be kept on a ramdisk?
I would prefer this approach and back-out the other change. On-demand is cheaper and easier to use. > > Attached is a WIP patch, which basically implements this: > > This patch breaks deadlock checking and statement_timeout, because > backends already use SIGALRM. You can't just take over that signal. > It's possible that you could get things to work by treating this as an > additional reason for SIGALRM, but that code is unreasonably complex > already. I'd suggest finding some other way. There are other ways already in use in backend, so just use those. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
