Re: Add on_perl_init and proper destruction to plperl [PATCH]

Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>

From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-27T16:44:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> [...]
> Lastly, an atexit trigger will still fire during FATAL or PANIC aborts,
> which scares me even more.  When the house is already afire, it's
> not prudent to politely let user-written perl code do whatever it wants
> before you get the heck out of there.

Is there a reason that these panics don't use _exit(3) to bypass
atexit hooks?

- FChE