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From Alex Hunsaker
Subject Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server
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In response to Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> We probably should workaround that bug anyway given that its a pretty trivial
> DOS using only a trusted language and it will take quite some time to push out
> newer perl versions even if that bug gets fixed.
>
> Doing a pqsignal(SIGFPE, FloatExceptionHandler) after PERL_SYS_INIT3 seems to
> work. Is that acceptable?

Makes sense to me. (I have not looked to see if there is some perl
knob we can flip for this)

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