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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2012-09-05 16:43:45 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2012-09-05 16:43:45 -0400
commit5ee0f03727eb7452ad8ecbca660d500ab78ac015 (patch)
treefaf4ca0f0d7c5eb51657f8e5f471c8330644b444
parenta69b7a1c34750f37c72acaac941555c70050dc7d (diff)
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Restore SIGFPE handler after initializing PL/Perl.
Perl, for some unaccountable reason, believes it's a good idea to reset SIGFPE handling to SIG_IGN. Which wouldn't be a good idea even if it worked; but on some platforms (Linux at least) it doesn't work at all, instead resulting in forced process termination if the signal occurs. Given the lack of other complaints, it seems safe to assume that Perl never actually provokes SIGFPE and so there is no value in the setting anyway. Hence, reset it to our normal handler after initializing Perl. Report, analysis and patch by Andres Freund.
-rw-r--r--src/pl/plperl/plperl.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
index b31e965ab5a..9d757d96af3 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@
#include "commands/trigger.h"
#include "executor/spi.h"
#include "funcapi.h"
+#include "libpq/pqsignal.h"
#include "mb/pg_wchar.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "nodes/makefuncs.h"
#include "parser/parse_type.h"
#include "storage/ipc.h"
+#include "tcop/tcopprot.h"
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/fmgroids.h"
#include "utils/guc.h"
@@ -740,6 +742,18 @@ plperl_init_interp(void)
char *dummy_env[1] = {NULL};
PERL_SYS_INIT3(&nargs, (char ***) &embedding, (char ***) &dummy_env);
+
+ /*
+ * For unclear reasons, PERL_SYS_INIT3 sets the SIGFPE handler to
+ * SIG_IGN. Aside from being extremely unfriendly behavior for a
+ * library, this is dumb on the grounds that the results of a
+ * SIGFPE in this state are undefined according to POSIX, and in
+ * fact you get a forced process kill at least on Linux. Hence,
+ * restore the SIGFPE handler to the backend's standard setting.
+ * (See Perl bug 114574 for more information.)
+ */
+ pqsignal(SIGFPE, FloatExceptionHandler);
+
perl_sys_init_done = 1;
/* quiet warning if PERL_SYS_INIT3 doesn't use the third argument */
dummy_env[0] = NULL;