Greg Stark <gsstark@xxxxxxx> writes: > That is a question. But actually I think sigio might be fairly > portable -- at least the first hit I found was for someone complaining > that it wasn't working on Linux (due to a bug) and this broke their > app which worked everywhere else. > In any case this would be a feature which if it didn't work would > leave us just where we are today. That's another advantage over trying > to do something with sigurg which would be far more likely to cause > headaches if it behave incorrectly. [ reads man pages for awhile... ] It looks to me like SIGIO is sent whenever the socket comes ready for either reading or writing, which makes it pretty nearly useless for detecting a broken-connection condition. You'd be too busy filtering out uninteresting signals --- and the signal handler itself can't do very much of that work. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
