Re: Preventing abort() and exit() calls in libpq

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Subject: Re: Preventing abort() and exit() calls in libpq
Date: 2021-06-28 13:54:16
Message-ID: 151972.1624888456@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> writes:
> A possible trick is to add ccp flags such as: -Dexit=exit_BAD
> -Dabort=abort_BAD.

Not really going to work, at least not without a lot of fragile
kluges, because the main problem here is to prevent libpq from
*indirectly* calling those functions via stuff it imports from
src/port or src/common.

It's possible that we could make it work by generalizing the
policy that "libpq may not call abort/exit" into "no PG shlib
may call abort/exit", and then apply the cpp #defines while
compiling the xxx_shlib.o variants of those files. This does
not seem more attractive than what I proposed, though.

regards, tom lane

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