Tom Lane wrote:
> Allowing SIGPIPE to kill the backend is completely infeasible, as the
> backend would be unable to release locks etc before dying.

So the upshot is really not that ignoring SIGPIPE is specifically 
intended as the optimal solution but that writing a proper cleanup 
handler for SIGPIPE seems very difficult.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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