Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I like that better actually ... one less thing for developers to get wrong.
>
>> The attached patch appears to work correctly on MacOS X.  I did check,
>> BTW: getppid() in the attached process returns gdb's pid.  Poor!
>
> Looks good to me.
>
>> For my own purposes, I would be just as happy to apply this only to
>> master.  But I wonder if anyone wants to argue for back-patching, to
>> help debug existing installations?
>
> Given the lack of non-developer complaints, I see no need to backpatch.

Well, non-developers don't tend to attach gdb very often.  Alvaro
mentioned a problem installation upthread, thus the question.

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