Re: Strange failure on mamba

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 06:06:47
Message-ID: 20221130060647.nyeunt6zmfflf4jt@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

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.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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