Seems system() call cleanups sigaction state on FreeBSD.
The root of problem is a threading library. In FreeBSD there are two versions of sigaction() (system() and others) depending on thread enabled. libpq library is compiled by default with -pthread switch but psql is linked without that. This mixed linkage is a reason why system() call for external program loses signal handler.
Next, configure script correctly sets PTHREAD_* variables but PTHREAD_LIBS is not used for psql linking.
What is the best way to fix that? I suggest to add PTHREAD_LIBS to linking psql at least. Although, suppose, it could be a reason for other cryptic bugs.
I didn't test this solution on other OSes, but, suppose, it will work. -- Teodor Sigaev E-mail: teo...@sigaev.ru WWW: http://www.sigaev.ru/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers