pgsql: On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Noah Misch
Subject pgsql: On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.
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Msg-id E1Y94MI-00057z-7W@gemulon.postgresql.org
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On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.

Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a
thread.  Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption
on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers
simultaneously.  Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined
behavior from sigprocmask() and fork().  Emit LOG messages about the
problem and its workaround.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

Branch
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REL9_2_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5ca4e444cb228faaaff8d6cf5719167410078537

Modified Files
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configure                           |    3 ++-
configure.in                        |    2 +-
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/pg_config.h.in          |    3 +++
src/port/exec.c                     |   12 ++++++++++
5 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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