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Re: [BUGS] Bad interaction between elog and postmaster.c (6.4.2)

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-06-29T13:29:56Z

> Hi there,
> 	The bug that I reported which was causing the backend and all its
> children to hang when an accept() on an incoming connection fails turns out to
> because of elog()'s side effect of sending SIGQUIT to the backend.  This causes
> the children to be sent signals while SIGCHLD is blocked (to prevent race's). 
> This seems to hang the backend forever.
> 
> I was going to check 6.5 before I sent this but I don't have enough time just
> now, my aplogies for this.
> 
> A simple hack around is to remove the elog() when an accept fails.

This is redesigned in 6.5.

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