Re: [HACKERS] Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history

[Tom Lane]

"Mikheev, Vadim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What I'd like to look at sometime soon is using POSIX semaphores
>> instead of SysV semaphores.  But we need stateful semaphores,
>> not signals.

> Conditional variables seem to be more portable

Really?  Which standard are they specified in?

I have no intention of removing the SysV sem support, mind you;
I just think it might be good to have an alternative implementation
that relies on a more modern standard ...

                        regards, tom lane