level" locks. A session lock is not released at transaction commit (but it
is released on transaction abort, to ensure recovery after an elog(ERROR)).
In VACUUM, use a session lock to protect the master table while vacuuming a
TOAST table, so that the TOAST table can be done in an independent
transaction.
I also took this opportunity to do some cleanup and renaming in the lock
code. The previously noted bug in ProcLockWakeup, that it couldn't wake up
any waiters beyond the first non-wakeable waiter, is now fixed. Also found
a previously unknown bug of the same kind (failure to scan all members of
a lock queue in some cases) in DeadLockCheck. This might have led to failure
to detect a deadlock condition, resulting in indefinite waits, but it's
difficult to characterize the conditions required to trigger a failure.
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applied to the duplicated subtree twice. Probably someday we should
fix the parser not to generate multiple links to the same subtree,
but for now a quick copyObject() is the path of least resistance.
observed by Inoue. Also, don't call ProcRemove() from postmaster if we
have detected a backend crash --- too risky if shared memory is corrupted.
It's not needed anyway, considering we are going to reinitialize shared
memory and semaphores as soon as the last child is dead.
>> xlog.c : special case for beos to avoid 'link' which does not work yet
>> beos/sem.c : implementation of new sem_ctl call (GETPID) and a new
>sem_op
>> flag (IPCNOWAIT)
>> dynloader/beos.c : add a verification of symbol validity (seem that
the
>> loader sometime return OK with an invalid symbol)
>> postmaster.c : add beos forking support for the new checkpoint
process
>> postgres.c : remove beos special case for getrusage
>> beos.h : Correction of a bas definition of AF_UNIX, misc defnitions
>>
>>
>> thanks
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>> cyril
Cyril VELTER
might change it. Experimentation shows that the signal handler call
mechanism does not save/restore errno for you, at least not on Linux
or HPUX, so this is definitely a real risk.
to ensure that we have released buffer refcounts and so forth, rather than
putting ad-hoc operations before (some of the calls to) proc_exit. Add
commentary to discourage future hackers from repeating that mistake.
