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Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server

Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>

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From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2012-08-24T22:15:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> We probably should workaround that bug anyway given that its a pretty trivial
> DOS using only a trusted language and it will take quite some time to push out
> newer perl versions even if that bug gets fixed.
>
> Doing a pqsignal(SIGFPE, FloatExceptionHandler) after PERL_SYS_INIT3 seems to
> work. Is that acceptable?

Makes sense to me. (I have not looked to see if there is some perl
knob we can flip for this)