Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>
> On 2014-11-15 00:11:36 +0300, Alex Shulgin wrote: 
>> After reading up through archives on the two $subj related TODO items
>> I'm under impression that the patches[1,2] didn't make it mainly because
>> of the risk of breaking SSL internals if we try to longjump out of the
>> signal handler in the middle of a blocking SSL read and/or if we try to
>> report that final "transaction/connection aborted" notice to the client.
>
> I've written a patch that allows that - check
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20140927225421.GE5423%40alap3.anarazel.de
>
> I feel pretty confident that that's the way to go. I just need some time
> to polish it.
>
>> What if instead of trying to escape from the signal handler we would set
>> a flag and use it to simulate EOF after the recv() is restarted due to
>> EINTR?  From the backend perspective it should look like the client has
>> just hang up.
>
> That's pretty much what the above does. Except that it actually deals
> with blocking syscalls by not using them and relying on latches/select
> instead.

Neat, I must have missed it.

--
Alex


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