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Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2012-08-24T04:55:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:17:22 PM Andres Freund wrote:
>> While debugging an instance of this bug I noticed that plperlu always
>> removes the SIGFPE handler and sets it to ignore:

> In fact it can be used to crash the server:

Um ... how exactly can that happen, if the signal is now ignored?

			regards, tom lane