[postgis-devel] does PostGIS CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS? Should it?

[Nicklas Avén]

Ok, thanks for explaining.

Should we put a warning and explanation in doc?

/Nicklas

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 10:54 +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:51:20AM +0100, Nicklas Avén wrote:
> > ST_MemUnion seems to be more mortal.
> > 
> > Maybe it is a specific ST_Union problem?
> 
> There's support in PostgreSQL to drop "interrupt-me-now-if-needed"
> statements in the extensions code. Unfortunately the union operation
> is all happening within GEOS so there's no way for use to play
> with that interruption thing.
> 
> ST_MemUnion calls Union multiple times, so you can kill it between calls.
> 
> --strk; 
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