Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15
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Msg-id 0CA603B0-0B95-4FB7-B3A5-84BB60F3C2C4@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On February 3, 2023 9:19:23 AM GMT+01:00, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:09 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> Thinking about popen() suggests that we have a similar problem with COPY
>> FROM PROGRAM as we have in pgarch (i.e. not as bad as the startup
>> process issue, but still not great, due to
>> procsignal_sigusr1_handler()).
>
>A small mercy: while we promote some kinds of fatal-ish signals to
>group level with kill(-PID, ...), we don't do that for SIGUSR1 for
>latches or procsignals.

Not as bad, but we still do SetLatch() from a bunch of places that would be reached...

Andres
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