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Tom Lane 5d8117e1f3 Block signals earlier during postmaster startup.
Formerly, we set up the postmaster's signal handling only when we were
about to start launching subprocesses.  This is a bad idea though, as
it means that for example a SIGINT arriving before that will kill the
postmaster instantly, perhaps leaving lockfiles, socket files, shared
memory, etc laying about.  We'd rather that such a signal caused orderly
postmaster termination including releasing of those resources.  A simple
fix is to move the PostmasterMain stanza that initializes signal handling
to an earlier point, before we've created any such resources.  Then, an
early-arriving signal will be blocked until we're ready to deal with it
in the usual way.  (The only part that really needs to be moved up is
blocking of signals, but it seems best to keep the signal handler
installation calls together with that; for one thing this ensures the
kernel won't drop any signals we wished to get.  The handlers won't get
invoked in any case until we unblock signals in ServerLoop.)

Per a report from MauMau.  He proposed changing the way "pg_ctl stop"
works to deal with this, but that'd just be masking one symptom not
fixing the core issue.

It's been like this since forever, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-04-05 18:16:08 -04:00
config Allow use of "z" flag in our printf calls, and use it where appropriate. 2014-01-23 17:18:33 -05:00
contrib Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats. 2014-04-03 22:02:24 -04:00
doc Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats. 2014-04-03 22:02:24 -04:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.