Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded
Date
Msg-id 12919.1189792669@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>> There is a problem in PL/TCL that can cause the postgres backend to
>>> become multithreaded.   Postgres is not designed to be multithreaded, so
>>> this causes downstream errors in signal handling.

> Um, this is a bug fix. Unless you had some problem with it?

I haven't reviewed that patch yet, but I concur we should consider it
for 8.3.

            regards, tom lane

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