Subject: Re: BUG #17073: docs - "Improve signal handling reliability"
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>,
 "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, lizenko79@gmail.com,
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From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 11:41:40 +0900
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On 2021/07/01 10:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Jun-30, David G. Johnston wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 5:54 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
>> wrote:
> 
>>> Since this explains the commit 2945a488a, it's better to describe
>>> something like the following?
> 
>> The wording still needs some work...but is this even release note worthy?
>>
>> We forget to check for interrupts before sleeping in an otherwise busy-wait
>> loop.  We corrected the oversight.
> 
> Yeah, it's a good question.  I wonder if this should be back-patched, so
> it'd be noted as a bugfix in the next set of minors rather than as a new
> feature for 14.

Yes. I'm not sure why I did not back-patch the change, but IMO it's worth doing that.
Barring any objection, I will do that.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION