Re: [TODO] Allow commenting of variables ...

Zdenek Kotala wrote:

> I performed some investigation and I found that signal handler
> (SIGHUP_handler) contents a big code and contents signal nonsafe
> functions. It should generate deadlock or damage some internal data
> structure in the standard c library. See
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html
> for detail. By my opinion is necessary to rewrite signal handling in
> postmaster to avoid postgres malfunction.

Perhaps you missed these lines:

/*
* Block all signals until we wait again. (This makes it safe for our
* signal handlers to do nontrivial work.)
*/
PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig);

postmaster.c 1227ff

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