f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: >> Lastly, an atexit trigger will still fire during FATAL or PANIC aborts, >> which scares me even more. When the house is already afire, it's >> not prudent to politely let user-written perl code do whatever it wants >> before you get the heck out of there.
> Is there a reason that these panics don't use _exit(3) to bypass > atexit hooks? Well, I don't really want to entirely forbid the use of atexit() --- I'm just concerned about using it to run arbitrary user-written code. There might be more limited purposes for which it's a reasonable choice. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers