Re: Add on_perl_init and proper destruction to plperl [PATCH] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> [...]
> Lastly, an atexit trigger will still fire during FATAL or PANIC aborts,
> which scares me even more.  When the house is already afire, it's
> not prudent to politely let user-written perl code do whatever it wants
> before you get the heck out of there.

Is there a reason that these panics don't use _exit(3) to bypass
atexit hooks?

- FChE