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Re: Why aren't we using strsignal(3) ?

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-12-17T16:59:28Z
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At 2018-12-17 11:52:03 -0500, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
>
> While a dozen lines in pgstrsignal.c certainly are not worth worrying
> over, getting rid of the configure test for sys_siglist[] would save
> some cycles on every build.  So I'm tempted to drop it.  Thoughts?

Removing it makes sense to me.

-- Abhijit

Commits

  1. Drop support for getting signal descriptions from sys_siglist[].

  2. Modernize our code for looking up descriptive strings for Unix signals.