That's probably not a bad idea. AFAIK we haven't had reports of it elsewhere, but it oculd happen. Want to code up a new patch, and run some tests?
//Magnus > -----Original Message----- > > Also, do we want to move the retry loop to pgwin32_recv? > That seems like a good idea. I'm not sure users of recv > should ever have to deal with WSAEWOULDBLOCK as it's not > really an error. > > Pete > > >>> "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/06/06 9:58 pm >>> > > > Attached are two patches which in combination make > pg_stat_activity > > > > work reliably for us on Windows. > > > ... > > > pgstat.patch removes the delayed destroy code for backends, > > databases, > > > and tables. Database and table entries are cleaned up immediately > > > > upon receipt of the appropriate message. > > > > I'll go ahead and apply the delayed-destroy-removal part > > (just to HEAD for the time being --- seems a bit risky to > > apply it to the stable branches). The Windows-specific > > change sounds like it may need more review. > > Actually, I think that's mostly me being confused and taking others > with > me ;-) > > It's definitly a problem, and we have a solution there. The one thing > I'm still a bit concerned about is: Do we need a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, > and do we need an upper limit on the spinning. In theory we can spin > with 100% CPU usage, which is not good. So we should either spin a > limited amount of times, or we should perhaps introduce a tiny delay? > > //Magnus > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that > your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly