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On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.
authorNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 03:35:44 +0000 (22:35 -0500)
committerNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 03:35:44 +0000 (22:35 -0500)
commit894459e59ffa5c7fee297b246c17e1f72564db1d
tree852b8503ace4e86b14c552254fced85c97186ce3
parent6fdba8ceb071a3512d5685f1cd4f971ab4d562d1
On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.

Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a
thread.  Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption
on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers
simultaneously.  Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined
behavior from sigprocmask() and fork().  Emit LOG messages about the
problem and its workaround.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
configure
configure.in
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
src/common/exec.c
src/include/pg_config.h.in