Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> writes:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>> Running unsafe functions within a signal handler is not unsafe per-se.
>> It's only unsafe if the main program could also be running unsafe
>> functions.
> I don't disagree with your reasoning, but does POSIX actually say
> this?
The fact remains that the postmaster has *always* been coded like that,
and we have *never* seen any problems. Barring proof that there is a
problem, I'm uninterested in rewriting it just because someone doesn't
like it.
regards, tom lane