Make PostmasterIsAlive() go faster with signals

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ID 1617
Title Make PostmasterIsAlive() go faster with signals
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Topic Performance
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Created 2018-04-18 05:52:53
Last modified 2018-07-11 01:19:14 (7 years ago)
Latest email 2018-07-11 08:10:14 (7 years ago)
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2018-07 (2018-07-01 – 2018-07-31): Committed
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Authors Thomas Munro (macdice)
Reviewers Heikki Linnakangas (heikki)Become reviewer
Committer Thomas Munro (macdice)
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Excessive PostmasterIsAlive calls slow down WAL redo
First at 2018-04-05 07:23:43 by Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka at iki.fi>
Latest at 2018-07-11 08:10:14 by Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka at iki.fi>
Latest attachment (0001-Use-signals-for-postmaster-death-on-Linux-2.patch) at 2018-07-10 11:39:38 from Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka at iki.fi>
    Attachment (0001-Use-signals-for-postmaster-death-on-Linux-2.patch) at 2018-07-10 11:39:38 from Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka at iki.fi> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Use-signals-for-postmaster-death-on-Linux-v4.patch) at 2018-04-25 06:23:26 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at enterprisedb.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Use-signals-for-postmaster-death-on-Linux-v3.patch) at 2018-04-21 00:25:27 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at enterprisedb.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Use-signals-for-postmaster-death-on-Linux-v2.patch) at 2018-04-19 03:05:50 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at enterprisedb.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Use-signals-for-postmaster-death-detection-on-Linux.patch) at 2018-04-18 05:04:17 from Thomas Munro <thomas.munro at enterprisedb.com> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (0001-Call-HandleStartupProcInterrupts-less-frequently-in-.patch) at 2018-04-05 07:23:43 from Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka at iki.fi> (Patch: Yes)
History
When Who What
2018-07-11 01:19:14 Thomas Munro (macdice) Closed in commitfest 2018-07 with status: Committed
2018-07-11 01:19:14 Thomas Munro (macdice) Changed committer to macdice
2018-07-10 11:40:23 Heikki Linnakangas (heikki) New status: Waiting on Author
2018-07-10 11:40:18 Heikki Linnakangas (heikki) Added heikki as reviewer
2018-04-18 05:53:01 Thomas Munro (macdice) Changed authors to Thomas Munro (macdice)
2018-04-18 05:52:53 Thomas Munro (macdice) Attached mail thread [email protected]
2018-04-18 05:52:53 Thomas Munro (macdice) Created patch record
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