Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15
Date: 2023-02-01 16:06:09
Message-ID: 20230201160609.GA3197588@nathanxps13
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 10:12:26AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> On 2023-02-01 16:21:16 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
>>> It's always in proc_exit() in StartupProcShutdownHandler(), a SIGTERM
>>> handler which is allowed to call that while in_restore_command is
>>> true.
>
>> Ugh, no wonder we're getting crashes. This whole business seems bogus as
>> hell.
>
> Indeed :-(

Ugh. My bad.

> The fundamental issue is that we have no good way to break out
> of system(), and I think the original idea was that
> in_restore_command would be set *only* for the duration of the
> system() call. That's clearly been lost sight of completely,
> but maybe as a stopgap we could try to get back to that.

+1. I'll produce some patches.

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Nathan Bossart
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