Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server
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Msg-id 6418.1346877932@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, September 05, 2012 07:15:52 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>> OK.  Do we want to commit this now, or wait till after 9.2.0?
>> My feeling is it's probably okay to include in 9.2.0, but I can see
>> that somebody might want to argue not to.  Any objections out there?

> Perhaps unsurprisingly I would argue for including it. I am not saying its a 
> perfect solution, but not bandaiding seems to open a bigger hole/DOS. Given 
> that any occurance of SIGFPE inside perl on linux in the last 10 years or so 
> would have lead to perl (including postgres w. plperl[u]) getting killed with
> a somewhat distinctive message and the lack of reports I could find about it 
> the risk doesn't seem to be too big.

Hearing no objections, committed and back-patched.
        regards, tom lane



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