Andres Freund wrote: > I'm generally baffled at all the stuff postmaster does in signal > handlers... ProcessConfigFile(), load_hba() et al. It's all done with > signals disabled, but still.
As far as I recall, the rationale for why this is acceptable is that the whole of postmaster is run with signals blocked; they are only unblocked during the sleeping select(). -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
