Re: How to cripple a postgres server

Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Robert Norris <srn@commsecure.com.au>
    message dated "29 May 2002 11:59:25 +1000"
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:55:57 -0400
Message-ID: <20115.1022644557@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Stephen Robert Norris <srn@commsecure.com.au> writes:
> Not at all like the vacuum problem. Do you have any other tests I can
> run? Other diagnostics that might help?

This is a long shot, but ... does the behavior change if you remove the
two lines

    if (signo != SIGALRM)
        act.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;

near the bottom of src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c ?  I am wondering if
Linux gets unhappy if we try to do much in a signal handler.  This
looks to be the simplest alteration that might address such a problem.

            regards, tom lane

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