Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren
Date: 2010-12-20 20:11:37
Message-ID: 14212.1292875897@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I like that better actually ... one less thing for developers to get wrong.

> The attached patch appears to work correctly on MacOS X. I did check,
> BTW: getppid() in the attached process returns gdb's pid. Poor!

Looks good to me.

> For my own purposes, I would be just as happy to apply this only to
> master. But I wonder if anyone wants to argue for back-patching, to
> help debug existing installations?

Given the lack of non-developer complaints, I see no need to backpatch.

regards, tom lane

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