pgsql: Suppress log spam from multiple reports of SIGQUIT shutdown.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Suppress log spam from multiple reports of SIGQUIT shutdown.
Date: 2020-12-29 23:03:07
Message-ID: E1kuO1D-00022e-67@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Suppress log spam from multiple reports of SIGQUIT shutdown.

When the postmaster sends SIGQUIT to its children, there's no real
need for all the children to log that fact; the postmaster already
made a log entry about it, so adding perhaps dozens or hundreds of
child-process log entries adds nothing of value. So, let's introduce
a new ereport level to specify "WARNING, but never send to log" and
use that for these messages.

Such a change wouldn't have been desirable before commit 7e784d1dc,
because if someone manually SIGQUIT's a backend, we *do* want to log
that. But now we can tell the difference between a signal that was
issued by the postmaster and one that was not with reasonable
certainty.

While we're here, also clear error_context_stack before ereport'ing,
to prevent error callbacks from being invoked in the signal-handler
context. This should reduce the odds of getting hung up while trying
to notify the client.

Per a suggestion from Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201225230331.hru3u6obyy6j53tk@alap3.anarazel.de

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1f9158ba48122fa232db955a2ee324eec1848ba9

Modified Files
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src/backend/tcop/postgres.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
src/backend/utils/error/elog.c | 10 +++++++++-
src/include/utils/elog.h | 12 ++++++------
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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