Re: [BUG] Re-entering malloc problem when use --enable-nls build postgresql

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-05-08 01:32:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There are not any better alternatives.  We can't just set a flag in the
>> signal handler and hope that control will someday reach a place that
>> notices the flag.  We could exit without attempting to report anything,
>> but nobody would find that user-friendly.  So we try to report, in the
>> full understanding that sometimes it won't work.

> It'd be fairly unproblematic to write an untranslated message out.

To stderr, maybe.  Across an SSL-encrypted client connection?  You're
dreaming.

            regards, tom lane