Re: Strange failure on mamba

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange failure on mamba
Date: 2022-11-30 06:15:15
Message-ID: 1282328.1669788915@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2022-11-29 20:44:34 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's also strange that we're apparently running with signals enabled
>> whereever it is that rtld_bind is getting called from. Could it be that
>> sigaction is failing to install the requested signal mask, so that one
>> postmaster signal handler is interrupting another?

> This made me look at pqsignal_pm() / pqsignal() and realize that we wouldn't
> even notice if it failed, because they just return SIG_ERR and callers don't
> check. I don't think that's a likely to be related, but theoretically it could
> lead to some odd situations.

Yeah, I noticed that just now too. But if sigaction() failed,
the signal handler wouldn't get installed at all, which'd lead
to different and more-obvious symptoms. So I doubt that that's
what happened.

regards, tom lane

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