Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 00:01, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> My manpage for signal(2) says that you shouldn't assign SIG_IGN to >> SIGCHLD, according to POSIX.
> So - I should be setting this to SIG_DFL and thats good for everyone? Yeah, we learned the same lesson in the backend not too many releases back. SIG_IGN'ing SIGCHLD is bad voodoo; it'll work on some platforms but not others. You could do worse than to look at the existing handling of signals in the postmaster and its children; that code has been beat on pretty heavily ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend