Re: atexit_callback can be a net negative

On 2014-03-07 00:03:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> In the bug thread I proposed making atexit_callback check whether getpid()
> still matches MyProcPid.

What are you proposing to do in that case? This is only one of the
failure cases of forking carelessly, right?
I think the only appropriate thing would be to make as much noise as
possible in that case, which is probably something like writing a
message to stderr, and then abort().

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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