pgsql: Recompute stack base in forked postmaster children.

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Recompute stack base in forked postmaster children.
Date: 2020-04-06 01:52:07
Message-ID: E1jLGvn-0002WO-Pa@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Recompute stack base in forked postmaster children.

This is for the benefit of running postgres under the rr
debugger. When using rr signal handlers running while a syscall is
active use an alternative stack. As e.g. bgworkers are started from
within signal handlers, the forked backend then has a different stack
base than postmaster. Previously that subsequently lead to those
processes triggering spurious "stack depth limit exceeded" errors.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200327182217.ubrrl32lyfhxfwk5@alap3.anarazel.de

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fc3f4453a2bc95549682e23600b22e658cb2d6d7

Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 5 -----
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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