Re: [HACKERS] Signals blocked during auth

2001-08-22 Thread Jan Wieck
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane writes: > > > I think this is fairly irrelevant, because a not-yet-backend should > > have a fairly short timeout (a few seconds) before just shutting > > down anyway, so that malfunctioning clients can't cause denial of > > service; the particular case you menti

Re: [HACKERS] Signals blocked during auth

2001-08-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > I think this is fairly irrelevant, because a not-yet-backend should > have a fairly short timeout (a few seconds) before just shutting > down anyway, so that malfunctioning clients can't cause denial of > service; the particular case you mention is just one scenario. I have a

Re: [HACKERS] Signals blocked during auth

2001-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now one little problem remains. If a bogus client causes a > child to hang before becoming a real backend, this child is > in the backend list of the postmaster, but has all signals > blocked. Thus, preventing the postmaster from bee