Hi,
On 2022-04-09 19:34:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > It's been broken in different ways all the way back to 9.0, from what I can
> > see, but I didn't check every single version.
>
> > Afaics the fix is to nuke the idea of doing anything substantial in the signal
> > handler from orbit, and instead just set a flag in the handler.
>
> +1. This is probably more feasible given the latch infrastructure
> than it was when that code was first written.
What do you think about just reordering the disable_all_timeouts() to be
before the got_standby_deadlock_timeout check in the back branches? I think
that should close at least the most obvious hole. And fix it properly in
HEAD?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
