Re: [PATCH] Clear FatalError earlier during crash restart

On Thu, Oct 01, 2026 at 10:54:55AM +0530, Ayush Tiwari wrote:
> Thanks for this. The patch looks good to me.
> I did multiple A/B testing and it works well.

I've been going back and forth a bit in the postmaster code to try
more if FatalError can be made again non-re-entrant for
HandleFatalError() with an assertion. My first try was the
introduction of a new flag to track if SIGQUIT was sent, but I was not
completely sure that I got the semantics right. A second set of
thoughts was pointing towards a more complicated scheme for the
states, which felt not really exciting. At the end, I have just
reused your solution, and applied it on HEAD. Let's let it brew first
there. The lack of complaints on the matter (even if we had one back
in 2023), and the v19 release being very close by don't argue in favor
of a backpatch, at least it feels strongly so to me.

Now down to the buildfarm to judge the stability of your test. The CI
has cleared quite a few times.
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Michael