On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that authentication_timeout is ineffective for
> replication=true type connections. That's because walsender doesn't
> register a SIGINT handler and authentication_timeout relies on having
> one.
>
> There's no problem with reading the initial startup packet
> (ProcessStartupPacket/BackendInitialize) because we use a separate
> handler there. But once that's done, before finishing authentication,
> WalSndSignals() will have set SIGINT's handler to SIG_IGN.
>
> Demo python program attached. You'll only see the problem if the
> authentication method requires a password/addititional packets.
>
> I think we could fix this by simply mapping SIGINT to die() instead
> SIG_IGN.
What is the status on this?
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