vignesh C <vignes...@gmail.com> writes: > The Solution Robert & Tom are suggesting by Calling > BackgroundWorkerUnblockSignals fixes the actual problem.
I've gone ahead and pushed the bgworker fix, since everyone seems to agree that that's okay, and it is provably fixing a problem. As for the question of SIGQUIT handling, I see that postgres.c does "PG_SETMASK(&BlockSig)" immediately after applying the sigdelset change, so there probably isn't any harm in having the background processes do likewise. I wonder though why bgworkers are not applying the same policy. (I remain of the opinion that any changes in this area should not be back-patched without evidence of a concrete problem; it's at least as likely that we'll introduce a problem as fix one.) regards, tom lane