Re: postgres_fdw uninterruptible during connection establishment / ProcSignalBarrier

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: postgres_fdw uninterruptible during connection establishment / ProcSignalBarrier
Date: 2023-01-10 02:05:01
Message-ID: 20230110020501.bujiesmhe2fuka42@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-01-03 12:05:20 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> The attached patch adds libpq-be-fe-helpers.h and uses it in libpqwalreceiver,
> dblink, postgres_fdw.

> As I made libpq-be-fe-helpers.h handle reserving external fds,
> libpqwalreceiver now does so. I briefly looked through its users without
> seeing cases of leaking in case of errors - which would already have been bad,
> since we'd already have leaked a libpq connection/socket.
>
>
> Given the lack of field complaints and the size of the required changes, I
> don't think we should backpatch this, even though it's pretty clearly buggy
> as-is.

Any comments on this? Otherwise I think I'll go with this approach.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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