Re: plperlu stored procedure seems to freeze for a minute

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: plperlu stored procedure seems to freeze for a minute
Date: 2015-12-03 15:02:18
Message-ID: 1850.1449154938@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> writes:
> Can those signals be safely ignored? Just blocking them (so that they
> are delivered after the UDF finishes) might be safer. But even that may
> be a problem: If the UDF then executes some SQL, could that rely on
> signals being delivered? I have no idea.

The minute you start fooling with a backend's signal behavior, we're
going to politely refuse to support whatever breakage you run into.
We aren't sending those signals just for amusement's sake.

regards, tom lane

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