Re: [patch] helps fe-connect.c handle -EINTR more gracefully

> David Ford <david@blue-labs.org> writes:
> > problem.  Remember a month ago when I had a huge database that I had to 
> > upgrade, I had no disk space to export it to and when the old version of 
> > psql ran out of memory it crashed?  The backend continued to push query 
> > data out the closed pipe until the backend was forcibly closed or the 
> > query completed.  Naturally this  caused considerable spammage on the 
> > console.
> 
> This has been discussed before.  Don't bother proposing that backends
> should use the default handling of SIGPIPE, because that won't be
> accepted.  A safe limited solution would be to keep backend libpq from
> emitting multiple consecutive "broken pipe" reports to stderr.
> A better-sounding solution that might have unforeseen side effects
> is to set QueryCancel as soon as we see a nonrecoverable-looking
> send() error.  This is on the TODO list but no one's gotten round to
> doing anything about it yet.

Guys, can we come to a resolution this so I can mark it as completed?

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