On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:32:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think we should try very hard to get rid of the longjmp in the signal
> handler altogether. I notice it doesn't work anyway in the Windows
> port, so this would improve portability as well as safety. The signal
> handler should just set a flag that would be checked at safe points,
> much as we do in the backend. (The bit about doing PQcancel can stay,
> though, since that's carefully designed to be signal-safe.)
I submitted a patch for this ages ago and AFAIK it's still in the
queue. Have you any issues with the way I did it there?
Have a ncie day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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