Tom Lane wrote:

[ thinks... ]  Another possibility is that you are running some
non-Postgres code that resets SIGALRM handling to default.  I have
heard rumors that Perl will do that in some cases, for example.
Are you using plperl?



Yes, we are. I know there are some places in the code where SIGALRM is used, so I'll start looking there. But if you or anyone else thinks of anything, let me know ...

[How would a plperl function that changes the local behavior of SIGALRM affect the backend?]

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