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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2022-01-17 13:30:04 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2022-01-17 13:30:04 -0500
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Avoid calling gettext() in signal handlers.
It seems highly unlikely that gettext() can be relied on to be async-signal-safe. psql used to understand that, but someone got it wrong long ago in the src/bin/scripts/ version of handle_sigint, and then the bad idea was perpetuated when those two versions were unified into src/fe_utils/cancel.c. I'm unsure why there have not been field complaints about this ... maybe gettext() is signal-safe once it's translated at least one message? But we have no business assuming any such thing. In cancel.c (v13 and up), I preserved our ability to localize "Cancel request sent" messages by invoking gettext() before the signal handler is set up. In earlier branches I just made src/bin/scripts/ not localize those messages, as psql did then. (Just for extra unsafety, the src/bin/scripts/ version was invoking fprintf() from a signal handler. Sigh.) Noted while fixing signal-safety issues in PQcancel() itself. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2937814.1641960929@sss.pgh.pa.us
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