Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2014-03-07 00:03:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> In the bug thread I proposed making atexit_callback check whether getpid() >> still matches MyProcPid.
> What are you proposing to do in that case? This is only one of the > failure cases of forking carelessly, right? No, I think it should do nothing. The coding pattern shown in bug #9464 seems perfectly reasonable and I think we should allow it. No doubt it's safer if the child process does an on_exit_reset; but right now, if the child fails to do so, atexit_callback is actively breaking things. And I don't think we can rely on third-party libraries to call on_exit_reset after forking. 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