Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Yes, I was afraid of that. Here's another idea. If the signal handler
> > is SIG_DFL, we install our own signal handler for SIGPIPE, and set/clear a
> > global variable before/after we send().
>
> That would address the speed issue but not the multithread correctness
> issue. Also, what happens if the app replaces the signal handler later?
Well, our current setup doesn't do multithreaded properly either. In
fact, I am starting to worry about libpq's thread-safety. Should I?
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