On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 05:37:13PM +0530, Lakshmi Narayana Velayudam wrote: > Later I have seen almost > all postgresql processes/bgworkers use signal handler to set a > variable *ConfigReloadPending > *which will later be read in main code to process guc changes but for > postmaster *ProcessConfigfile *is being called from signal handler itself > which intern has memory allocation related code (non-async safe code). Is > it safe to do this?
I think this is no longer true as of v16, thanks to commit 7389aad [0]. [0] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=7389aad -- nathan
