Re: [PATCHES] libpq cleanup for SIGPIPE and stderr concerns

> The attached patch implements some changes that were discussed a couple
> weeks ago on the hackers and interfaces lists:
> 1. When the backend sends a NOTICE message and closes the connection
>    (typically, because it was told to by the postmaster after another
>    backend coredumped), libpq will now print the notice and close the
>    connection cleanly.  Formerly, the frontend app would usually
>    terminate ungracefully due to a SIGPIPE.  (I am not sure if 6.3.2
>    behaved that way, but the current cvs sources do...)
> 2. libpq's various printouts to stderr are now fed through a single
>    "notice processor" routine, which can be overridden by the
>    application to direct notices someplace else.  This should ease
>    porting libpq to Windows.
>
> I also noticed and fixed a problem in PQprint: when sending output
> to a pager subprocess, it would disable SIGPIPE in case the pager
> terminates early (this is good) --- but afterwards it reset SIGPIPE to
> SIG_DFL, rather than restoring the application's prior setting (bad).
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Patch applied.


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