Re: longjmp in psql considered harmful

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:32:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think we should try very hard to get rid of the longjmp in the signal
> handler altogether.  I notice it doesn't work anyway in the Windows
> port, so this would improve portability as well as safety.  The signal
> handler should just set a flag that would be checked at safe points,
> much as we do in the backend.  (The bit about doing PQcancel can stay,
> though, since that's carefully designed to be signal-safe.)

I submitted a patch for this ages ago and AFAIK it's still in the
queue. Have you any issues with the way I did it there?

Have a ncie day,
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