On 2018-05-08 02:07:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2018-05-08 01:32:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> There are not any better alternatives. We can't just set a flag in the
> >> signal handler and hope that control will someday reach a place that
> >> notices the flag. We could exit without attempting to report anything,
> >> but nobody would find that user-friendly. So we try to report, in the
> >> full understanding that sometimes it won't work.
>
> > It'd be fairly unproblematic to write an untranslated message out.
>
> To stderr, maybe. Across an SSL-encrypted client connection? You're
> dreaming.
libpq invents an equivalent message when the server closes the
connection anyway, IIRC. So that'd not necessarily be too bad.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
