Re: Big disconnect_and_exit cleanup in pg_basebackup

2013-01-02 17:17 keltezéssel, Boszormenyi Zoltan írta:
> Hi,
>
> the previously sent "factor out pg_malloc and friends" patch
> may call exit() in case of OOM during allocation and as a consequence,
> PQfinish() won't get called, leaving an "unexpected EOF from client"
> in the log.
>
> Let's close this annoyance in pg_basebackup. The attached patch does
> the following:
>
> - adds a PQfinish() (actually PQfinishSafe()) call that was just posted
>   in another thread
> - replace all PQfinish() and PQclear() with their *Safe counterpart so
>   a normal execution won't result in a crash because of calling PQfinish()
>   on a stale pointer

Forget about this point, the attached version sets "conn = NULL;"
explicitly after PQfinish(conn).

> - kill the disconnect_and_exit() macro, replace it with plain exit(),
>   the atexit callback does the disconnect anyway.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
>
>
>


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