Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server

On 08/24/2012 10:58 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Friday, August 24, 2012 04:53:36 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> ./pod/perl581delta.pod:
>>> At startup Perl blocks the SIGFPE signal away since there isn't much
>>> Perl can do about it. Previously this blocking was in effect also for
>>> programs executed from within Perl. Now Perl restores the original
>>> SIGFPE handling routine, whatever it was, before running external
>>> programs.
>> So there's a gap in the "restore" logic someplace.
> Well, the logic is not triggering at all in pg's case. Its just used if perl
> is exec()ing something...
>
>
>>> perl.h also has some tidbits: ...
>>> That doesn't sound very well reasoned and especially not very well tested
>>> to me.
>> Time to file a Perl bug?
> Anybody more involved in the perl community volunteering?
>

Just run perlbug and let us know the bug number.

cheers

andrew