On 1/12/10, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes: > > I'm not sure whether poll(2) should be called for this purpose. But > > poll(2) and select(2) seem to often come together in the existing code. > > We should follow such custom? > > > Yes. poll() is usually more efficient, so it's preferred, but not all > platforms have it. (On the other side, I think Windows might have > only poll and not select.)
FYI: on PL/Proxy we use poll() exclusively and on platforms that dont have it (win32) we emulate poll() with select(): http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/plproxy/plproxy/src/poll_compat.c?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup End result is efficient and clean #ifdef-less code. Something to consider. -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
