Re: Use standard die() handler for SIGTERM in bgworkers

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Use standard die() handler for SIGTERM in bgworkers
Date: 2026-02-17 21:30:57
Message-ID: aZTeEXcrrdPft8fs@nathan
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:18:00PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 14/02/2026 23:56, Andres Freund wrote:
>> We really need some instrumentation that fails if we do allocations in signal
>> handlers etc.
>
> Yeah, that would be nice..

In theory we could pretty easily add assertions for that, given the
wrapper_handler business added a couple of years ago. I'll put together a
patch...

--
nathan

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