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Users of the WaitEventSet and WaitLatch() APIs can now choose between asking for WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH and then handling it explicitly, or asking for WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH to trigger immediate exit on postmaster death. This reduces code duplication, since almost all callers want the latter. Repair all code that was previously ignoring postmaster death completely, or requesting the event but ignoring it, or requesting the event but then doing an unconditional PostmasterIsAlive() call every time through its event loop (which is an expensive syscall on platforms for which we don't have USE_POSTMASTER_DEATH_SIGNAL support). Assert that callers of WaitLatchXXX() under the postmaster remember to ask for either WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH or WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH, to prevent future bugs. The only process that doesn't handle postmaster death is syslogger. It waits until all backends holding the write end of the syslog pipe (including the postmaster) have closed it by exiting, to be sure to capture any parting messages. By using the WaitEventSet API directly it avoids the new assertion, and as a by-product it may be slightly more efficient on platforms that have epoll(). Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D1TCviRykkUb69ppWLr_V697rzd1j3eZsRMmbXvETfqbQ%40mail.gmail.com, https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2LqHzizbe7muD7-2yHUbTOoF7Q+qkSD5Q41kuhttRTwA@mail.gmail.com
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.