Re: overwriting an existing .so while being used crashes the server process

Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz> writes:
> whenever I run a C-function (part of an .so file) and the file is
> overwritten, the connection crashes. Tested on 9.1.3 and 9.2-beta1.

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"So don't do that."

What exactly would you expect Postgres to do about such a thing, anyway?
It has no control over people overwriting its executable files.

            regards, tom lane