Hello,
I wrote a simple function:
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(my_fcn);
Datum
my_fcn()
{
int i,ret;
i=0;
signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN);
switch(fork())
{
case 0:
{
SPI_connect();
for(i=0;i10;i++)
{
SPI_exec(insert
Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about fork() followed by exec*(), either explicitly or via
popen(), system(), etc.? Should these be avoided as well, or is
there a safe way to do them? I'm thinking of the case where a
user-defined function wants to invoke some external command --
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:07:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Execing some new program is safe enough, although you might wish to
explicitly close the various sockets the backend holds to make sure
the new program doesn't maliciously scribble on them.
Is there a way to find out which fds to
Jakub =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Wo=BCny?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote a simple function:
signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN);
switch(fork())
This will NOT work. It WILL corrupt your database. You do not get to
randomly introduce new processes into the backend set.
regards,
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:39:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Jakub =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Wo=BCny?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote a simple function:
signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_IGN);
switch(fork())
This will NOT work. It WILL corrupt your database. You do not get to
randomly introduce new
