Re: recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

On 11/12/09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
>  > On 11/12/09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>  >> The other thought is that quickdie should block signals before
>  >> starting to do anything.
>
>  > There would still be possibility of recursive syslog() calls.
>  > Shouldn't we fix that too?
>
>
> That's what the signal block would do.

usual elog
  syslog
<signal>
 quickdie
     block signals
     syslog

You talked about blocking in quickdie(), but you'd need
to block in elog().

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marko