Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2013-01-30 10:23:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "MauMau" <maumau307@gmail.com> writes:
> > When I ran "pg_ctl stop -mi" against the primary, some applications 
> > connected to the primary did not stop. ...
> > The root cause is that gettext() is called in the signal handler quickdie() 
> > via errhint().
> 
> Yeah, it's a known hazard that quickdie() operates like that.

What about not translating those? The messages are static and all memory
needed by postgres should be pre-allocated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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