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Re: recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>

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From: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-12T15:01:40Z
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On 11/12/09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>  The other thought is that quickdie should block signals before
>  starting to do anything.

There would still be possibility of recursive syslog() calls.
Shouldn't we fix that too?

I'm not sure how exactly.  If the recursive elog() must stay, then
perhaps simple 'volatile int' around syslog() ?

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marko