Split the shared-memory array of PGPROC pointers out of the sinval

communication structure, and make it its own module with its own lock.
This should reduce contention at least a little, and it definitely makes
the code seem cleaner.  Per my recent proposal.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/storage/proc.h b/src/include/storage/proc.h
index 8d514fce94d..f771d71933c 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/proc.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/proc.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/storage/proc.h,v 1.77 2004/12/31 22:03:42 pgsql Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/storage/proc.h,v 1.78 2005/05/19 21:35:47 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 #define _PROC_H_
 
 #include "access/xlog.h"
-#include "storage/backendid.h"
 #include "storage/lock.h"
 #include "storage/pg_sema.h"
 
@@ -137,7 +136,7 @@ extern bool LockWaitCancel(void);
 
 extern void ProcWaitForSignal(void);
 extern void ProcCancelWaitForSignal(void);
-extern void ProcSendSignal(BackendId procId);
+extern void ProcSendSignal(int pid);
 
 extern bool enable_sig_alarm(int delayms, bool is_statement_timeout);
 extern bool disable_sig_alarm(bool is_statement_timeout);