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Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-20T20:11:37Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I like that better actually ... one less thing for developers to get wrong.

> The attached patch appears to work correctly on MacOS X.  I did check,
> BTW: getppid() in the attached process returns gdb's pid.  Poor!

Looks good to me.

> For my own purposes, I would be just as happy to apply this only to
> master.  But I wonder if anyone wants to argue for back-patching, to
> help debug existing installations?

Given the lack of non-developer complaints, I see no need to backpatch.

			regards, tom lane