| From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Marshall, Steve" <smarshall(at)wsi(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PL/TCL Patch to prevent postgres from becoming multithreaded |
| Date: | 2007-09-14 18:59:22 |
| Message-ID: | 46EADA0A.3040504@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>>> There is a problem in PL/TCL that can cause the postgres backend to
>>>> become multithreaded. Postgres is not designed to be multithreaded, so
>>>> this causes downstream errors in signal handling.
>
>> Um, this is a bug fix. Unless you had some problem with it?
>
> I haven't reviewed that patch yet, but I concur we should consider it
> for 8.3.
hmm i wonder if that could be related to:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00377.php
Stefan
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