Avoiding SIGPIPE (was Re: OSDL DBT-2 w/ PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and 7.4beta5)

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-01T19:20:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What we really want is to turn off SIGPIPE delivery on our socket
>> (only), but AFAIK there is no API to do that.
>> 
> Linux has as MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for send(), but that seems to be Linux 
> specific.

Hmm ... a Linux-specific solution would be better than none at all.

A bigger objection is that we couldn't get libssl to use it (AFAIK).
The flag really needs to be settable on the socket (eg, via fcntl),
not per-send.

			regards, tom lane