The usual pattern for handling a signal is that the signal handler sets a flag and calls SetLatch(MyLatch), and CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() or other code that is part of a wait loop calls another function to deal with it. The naming of the functions involved was a bit inconsistent, however. CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls ProcessInterrupts() to do the heavy-lifting, but the analogous functions in aux processes were called HandleMainLoopInterrupts(), HandleStartupProcInterrupts(), etc. Similarly, most subroutines of ProcessInterrupts() were called Process*(), but some were called Handle*(). To make things less confusing, rename all the functions that are part of the overall signal/interrupt handling system but are not executed in a signal handler to e.g. ProcessSomething(), rather than HandleSomething(). The "Process" prefix is now consistently used in the non-signal-handler functions, and the "Handle" prefix in functions that are part of signal handlers, except for some completely unrelated functions that clearly have nothing to do with signal or interrupt handling. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8a384b26-1499-41f6-be33-64b801fb98b8@iki.fi
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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