Michael Fuhr escribió: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:00:10PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Rhys Stewart escribió: > > > a more readable version > > > > What is this buffer() function? > > Looks like the PostGIS buffer() function, which calls GEOSBuffer() > in the GEOS library, which is where the code might be stuck. > > http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html#id2527029 > http://geos.refractions.net/ Yeah, that's what Rhys told me by private email. I suggested asking the PostGIS guys, but if GEOS is intended to be a platform-neutral module, I guess it's not very likely that they'll be adding a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in the loops there. (Peeking much further starts to get too time-consuming for me so I left it at that.) -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ "El destino baraja y nosotros jugamos" (A. Schopenhauer)