Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks)
Date: 2013-01-30 15:34:53
Message-ID: 20130130153453.GD3355@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-01-30 10:23:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "MauMau" <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > When I ran "pg_ctl stop -mi" against the primary, some applications
> > connected to the primary did not stop. ...
> > The root cause is that gettext() is called in the signal handler quickdie()
> > via errhint().
>
> Yeah, it's a known hazard that quickdie() operates like that.

What about not translating those? The messages are static and all memory
needed by postgres should be pre-allocated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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