Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2017-09-19 13:00:33 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> You mean, in the postmaster?
> Yes. We try to avoid touch shmem there, but it's not like we're > succeeding fully. See e.g. the pgstat_get_crashed_backend_activity() > calls (which do rely on shmem being ok to some extent), pmsignal, > BackgroundWorkerStateChange(), ... Well, the point is to avoid touching data structures that could be corrupted enough to confuse the postmaster. I don't have any problem with adding some more functionality to pmsignal, say. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers