David Fetter wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:01:20PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nailed it. > > > > > problem is in mainloop.c -> setup_cancel_handler. Apparently you > > > can have multiple handlers and windows keeps track of them all, > > > even if they do the same thing. Keeping track of so many system > > > handles would naturally slow the whole process down. > > > > Yipes. So we really want to do that only once. > > > > AFAICS it is appropriate to move the sigsetjmp and > > setup_cancel_handler calls in front of the per-line loop inside > > MainLoop --- can anyone see a reason not to? > > > > I'm inclined to treat this as an outright bug, not just a minor > > performance issue, because it implies that a sufficiently long psql > > script would probably crash a Windows machine. > > Ouch. In light of this, are we *sure* what we've got a is a candidate > for release?
Good point. It is something we would fix in a minor release, so it doesn't seem worth doing another RC just for that. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
