Thread: Fix for "q" with psql display paging dumps out of psql
Fix for "q" with psql display paging dumps out of psql
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jseymour@linxnet.com (Jim Seymour)
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Hi, Environment: SunOS 5.7 Generic_106541-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine Postgresql-7.4.6 Build config: --with-java --enable-thread-safety gcc version 3.3.1 less-381 readline-4.3 $ echo $PAGER /usr/local/bin/less $ echo $LESS -e I recently upgraded from 7.4.2 to 7.4.6 and ran into an annoying problem. Thereafter, most times, "q"uitting out of paged display output would dump me straight out of psql if the query result was sufficiently large. A bit of debugging revealed psql receiving a SIGPIPE to be the problem. Building pgsql w/o --enable-thread-safety eliminated the problem. It looks like the culprit is asynchronous SIGPIPE signals under Solaris 7 when using thread-safe libraries. Here's a reference: <http://www.lambdacs.com/cpt/FAQ.html#Q339>. I do not know if Solaris 8 and beyond behave this way. (Apparently async SIGPIPE is not POSIX-compliant, so one hopes Sun has fixed this broken behaviour.) Here's a fix that's simple, effective and doesn't hurt anything else: ------------------------- begin included text -------------------------- *** src/bin/psql/print.c-orig Wed Nov 17 08:04:47 2004 --- src/bin/psql/print.c Sat Nov 20 10:43:22 2004 *************** *** 1119,1124 **** --- 1119,1128 ---- { pclose(output); #ifndef WIN32 + /* The SIG_IGN is to compensate for broken Solaris 7 + * (async) SIGPIPE handling with --enable-thread-safety + */ + pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); pqsignal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL); #endif } -------------------------- end included text --------------------------- Thanks to Andrew, over at SuperNews, for the idea. Regards, Jim