Subject: Re: Point in Time Recovery
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>,
	HISADAMasaki <hisada.masaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:40:44 +0100
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On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 04:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 00:01, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> My manpage for signal(2) says that you shouldn't assign SIG_IGN to
> >> SIGCHLD, according to POSIX.
> 
> > So - I should be setting this to SIG_DFL and thats good for everyone?
> 
> Yeah, we learned the same lesson in the backend not too many releases
> back.  SIG_IGN'ing SIGCHLD is bad voodoo; it'll work on some platforms
> but not others.

Many thanks all, Best Regards Simon Riggs