Re: all backends (pg7.2.3 / redhat 7.2) die due to unexpected signal 14 (SIGALRM)

>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

>> DEBUG: server process (pid 20704) was terminated by signal 14

TL> whenever the backend process would next have reached a lock timeout.

TL> I have not dug through the Perl sources to look for mucking with
TL> SIGALRM, but I bet that's what the problem is.

From what I recall, perl takes charge of all signals in order to
deliver them at safe points to your perl program. This is both good
and bad. mod_perl has to deal with perl taking signals from apache.
Perhaps that code could be worth a read.

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