Re: stopgap fix for signal handling during restore_command

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: stopgap fix for signal handling during restore_command
Date: 2023-02-26 19:39:00
Message-ID: 20230226193900.GA1248604@nathanxps13
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 10:00:29AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-02-25 14:06:29 -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 11:52:53AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>> > I think I opined on this before, but we really ought to have a function to do
>> > some minimal signal safe output. Implemented centrally, instead of being open
>> > coded in a bunch of places.
>>
>> While looking around for the right place to put this, I noticed that
>> there's a write_stderr() function in elog.c that we might be able to use.
>> I used that in v9. WDYT?
>
> write_stderr() isn't signal safe, from what I can tell.

*facepalm* Sorry.

What precisely did you have in mind? AFAICT you are asking for a wrapper
around write().

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Nathan Bossart
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