Re: Parallel worker hangs while handling errors.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 5:05 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> We intend to unblock SIGQUIT before sigsetjmp() in places like
> bgwriter, checkpointer, walwriter and walreceiver, but we only call
> sigdelset(&BlockSig, SIGQUIT);, Without PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig);, seems
> like we are not actually unblocking SIQUIT and quickdie() will never
> get called in these processes if (sigsetjmp(local_sigjmp_buf, 1) !=
> 0){....}

Yeah, maybe so. This code has been around for a long time and I'm not
sure what the thought process behind it was, but I don't see a flaw in
your analysis here.

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