Re: strange buildfarm failures

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > > I agree that that would be a bug and we should fix it, but I don't think
> > > it explains the problem we're seeing because there is no PG_TRY block
> > > in the autovac startup code that I can see :-(
> > 
> > I'm wondering if there is some code path that invokes a PG_TRY deep in
> > the bowels of the system.
> 
> Well, I checked all the bowels involved in autovacuum startup.

Huh, hang on ... there is one caller, which is to set client_encoding
(call_string_assign_hook uses a PG_TRY block), but it is called *after*
the sigsetjmp block -- in InitPostgres.

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