Re: Multiplexing SUGUSR1

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> To set or clear the flag from PGPROC, to send or handle a signal, we 
>> have to acquire ProcArrayLock. Is that safe to do in a signal handler? 
> 
> No.  If it's trying to do that then it's broken.  In fact, if it's
> trying to do much of anything beyond setting a "volatile" flag variable
> in a signal handler, it's broken --- unless there are special provisions
> to limit where the signal trap can occur, which would be pretty much
> unacceptable for a multiplexed-signal implementation.

Ok, I was afraid so.

I think we'll need to replace the proposed bitmask with an array of 
sig_atomic_t flags then, and do without locking.

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