Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>

Date: 2012-09-05T14:06:53Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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0001-Reset-SIGFPE-handler-after-plperl-initialization.patch (text/x-patch) patch 0001

On Sunday, August 26, 2012 06:10:02 PM Andres Freund wrote:
> On Saturday, August 25, 2012 06:38:09 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > Doing a pqsignal(SIGFPE, FloatExceptionHandler) after PERL_SYS_INIT3
> > > seems to work. Is that acceptable?
> > 
> > Surely that's breaking perl's expectations, to more or less the same
> > degree they're breaking ours?
> 
> In the referenced bug they agree that this is the way forward.
As nobody has any better ideas here is a patch doing that:


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