From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: "postmaster became multithreaded" is reachable
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:51:32 -0500
Message-ID: <209558.1737658292@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250123183837.79.nmisch@google.com>
References: <206317.1737656533@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<20250123183837.79.nmisch@google.com>
Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 01:22:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> An alternative idea (that maybe should also be done in PostmasterMain)
>> is to report the HINT only #ifdef __darwin__ and on other platforms
>> use the "Please report a bug" text.
> I gather pthread_is_threaded_np() is still macOS-only, in which case the
> !darwin branch would be future-proofing only.
Ah, I had not realized that. Perhaps the comments about this code
should mention that?
> Another alternative would be to track whether we reached the startup-time
> check, emitting a message at exit only if we did reach the startup-time check.
> If a postmaster passes the startup-time check and fails the exit-time check,
> changing the environment won't help. Even so, I'm content with your first
> proposal.
Yeah, seems like overcomplication. Let's go with the simple way.
regards, tom lane
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