Re: Patch to avoid SIGQUIT accident

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: shazaum@gmail.com, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-11-20T15:00:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 7:21 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> * SIGQUIT is a fairly well-known way to get out of an application when all
> else fails.  People who aren't familiar with psql's exit commands might
> find it pretty unfriendly of us to block this off.

Also, sometimes psql gets into a state where it doesn't respond to ^C,
but ^\ still kills it.  I don't know why that happens, but I've seen
it repeatedly.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Fix various checksum check problems for pg_verify_checksums and base backups

  2. Switch pg_verify_checksums back to a blacklist