Re: pg_recvlogical, stdout and SIGHUP

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_recvlogical, stdout and SIGHUP
Date: 2014-05-13 13:35:51
Message-ID: 20140513133551.GC9535@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-05-13 16:31:25 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> pg_recvlogical re-opens the output file on SIGHUP. If the output goes to
> stdout, it will close stdout on SIGHUP. That's a bug, isn't it?

Yes. An annoying one at that because it'll mean a a new connection will
use that fd and we'll start writing stdout stuff to it...

> Another thing I noticed is that if when the output goes to a file, the file
> isn't re-opened immediately on SIGHUP. Only after receiving some data from
> the server. I believe that's also not intentional.

Hm. I can't really get excited about that one. Not doing that seems to
complicate matters unneccessarily. What's the problem here?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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