Don't intercept SIGQUIT as a signal to trigger failover; that's what

postmaster uses for immediate shutdown. Trap SIGUSR1 as the preferred
signal for that.

Per report by Fujii Masao and subsequent discussion on -hackers.
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Heikki Linnakangas 2009-03-18 19:27:28 +00:00
parent afcde99b1b
commit 47ce595502
1 changed files with 25 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c,v 1.18 2009/02/27 09:30:21 petere Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c,v 1.19 2009/03/18 19:27:28 heikki Exp $
*
*
* pg_standby.c
@ -463,6 +463,15 @@ sighandler(int sig)
signaled = true;
}
/* We don't want SIGQUIT to core dump */
static void
sigquit_handler(int sig)
{
signal(SIGINT, SIG_DFL);
kill(getpid(), SIGINT);
}
/*------------ MAIN ----------------------------------------*/
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
@ -485,8 +494,21 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
}
}
(void) signal(SIGINT, sighandler);
(void) signal(SIGQUIT, sighandler);
/*
* You can send SIGUSR1 to trigger failover.
*
* Postmaster uses SIGQUIT to request immediate shutdown. The default
* action is to core dump, but we don't want that, so trap it and
* commit suicide without core dump.
*
* We used to use SIGINT and SIGQUIT to trigger failover, but that
* turned out to be a bad idea because postmaster uses SIGQUIT to
* request immediate shutdown. We still trap SIGINT, but that may
* change in a future release.
*/
(void) signal(SIGUSR1, sighandler);
(void) signal(SIGINT, sighandler); /* deprecated, use SIGUSR1 */
(void) signal(SIGQUIT, sigquit_handler);
while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "cdk:lr:s:t:w:")) != -1)
{