Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: plperl sigfpe reset can crash the server
Date: 2012-09-05 17:15:52
Message-ID: 2477.1346865352@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Sunday, August 26, 2012 06:10:02 PM Andres Freund wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 25, 2012 06:38:09 AM Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Surely that's breaking perl's expectations, to more or less the same
>>> degree they're breaking ours?

>> In the referenced bug they agree that this is the way forward.

> As nobody has any better ideas here is a patch doing that:

OK. Do we want to commit this now, or wait till after 9.2.0?
My feeling is it's probably okay to include in 9.2.0, but I can see
that somebody might want to argue not to. Any objections out there?

regards, tom lane

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