Re: Usage of ProcessConfigfile in SIGHUP_Handler

2024-08-22 Thread Lakshmi Narayana Velayudam
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 9:50 PM Tom Lane wrote: > > > The previous postmaster coding blocked signals > > everywhere except immediately around the main loop's select() call, > > so there wasn't any real hazard of signal handlers interrupting > > anything of concern. We redid it for cleanliness, n

Re: Usage of ProcessConfigfile in SIGHUP_Handler

2024-08-22 Thread Lakshmi Narayana Velayudam
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 8:46 PM Nathan Bossart wrote: > > > I think this is no longer true as of v16, thanks to commit 7389aad [0]. > My Bad Nathan, was looking at PG 11, 14 codes. Just to be sure, calling *ProcessConfigFile *is a bug from a signal handler is a bug, right? Since it uses AllocSet

Usage of ProcessConfigfile in SIGHUP_Handler

2024-08-22 Thread Lakshmi Narayana Velayudam
Hi pgsql hacker, Recently I have been trying to understand why GUC changes will be visible even though they are done in the signal handler as part of *ProcessConfigfile* (done in some extension code). Later I have seen almost all postgresql processes/bgworkers use signal handler to set a variable

Implementing LRU cache for postgresql extension

2023-10-02 Thread Lakshmi Narayana Velayudam
Hi I am trying to implement a LRU cache in postgres extension. Please find the markdown file for more details. Looking forward to hearing from you. I am trying to write an LRU cache which can hold any type of data item in c for a postgresql extension. Everything is fine except that I am relying on