Re: "stuck spinlock"

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
Subject: Re: "stuck spinlock"
Date: 2013-12-14 12:23:48
Message-ID: 20131214122348.GC25520@awork2.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2013-12-13 15:57:14 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> If there was a way for raising an #error at compile time whenever a
> worker relies on the existing signal handler, I would vote for doing
> that. (But then I have no idea how to do such a thing.)

I don't see a way either given how disconnected registration of the
signal handler is from the bgworker infrastructure. I think the best we
can do is to raise an error in BackgroundWorkerUnblockSignals() - and we
should definitely do that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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