Re: Restartable signals 'n all that

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> So we've got two problems: SA_RESTART is preventing some EINTRs from
>> happening when we'd like, and yet it seems we are at risk of unwanted
>> EINTRs anyway.
>> 
>> The only really clean solution I can see is to stop using SA_RESTART
>> and try to make all our syscalls EINTR-proof.  But the probability
>> of bugs-of-omission seems just about 100%, especially in third party
>> backend add-ons that we don't get to review the code for.

> Did we do anything about this?  I see we have it on TODO ...

No, I haven't done anything about it.

(I'm not entirely convinced that there's a real problem on any modern
platforms.)
        regards, tom lane