Re: Point in Time Recovery

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, HISADAMasaki <hisada(dot)masaki(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Point in Time Recovery
Date: 2004-07-16 07:40:44
Message-ID: 1089963643.17493.7882.camel@stromboli
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On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 04:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 00:01, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> My manpage for signal(2) says that you shouldn't assign SIG_IGN to
> >> SIGCHLD, according to POSIX.
>
> > So - I should be setting this to SIG_DFL and thats good for everyone?
>
> Yeah, we learned the same lesson in the backend not too many releases
> back. SIG_IGN'ing SIGCHLD is bad voodoo; it'll work on some platforms
> but not others.

Many thanks all, Best Regards Simon Riggs

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