On 6/2/17 15:41, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's certainly plausible that we could have the latch code just ignore
> WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH if not IsUnderPostmaster.  I think that the original
> reasoning for not doing that was that the calling code should know which
> environment it's in, and not pass an unimplementable wait-exit reason;
> so silently ignoring the bit could mask a bug.  Perhaps that argument is
> no longer attractive.  Alternatively, we could fix the relevant call sites
> to do "(IsUnderPostmaster ? WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH : 0)", and keep the strict
> behavior for the majority of call sites.

There are a lot of those call sites.  (And a lot of duplicate code for
what to do if postmaster death actually happens.)  I doubt we want to
check them all.

The attached patch fixes the reported issue for me.

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From 8f0e1c844aabd4a0e3c245180d9019cbf65b1601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 23:02:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH latch event in single user mode

Otherwise code that uses this will abort with an assertion failure,
because postmaster_alive_fds are not initialized.

Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ah...@enterprisedb.com>
---
 src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c
index 53e6bf2477..55959de91f 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ WaitLatchOrSocket(volatile Latch *latch, int wakeEvents, 
pgsocket sock,
                AddWaitEventToSet(set, WL_LATCH_SET, PGINVALID_SOCKET,
                                                  (Latch *) latch, NULL);
 
-       if (wakeEvents & WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH)
+       if (wakeEvents & WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH && IsUnderPostmaster)
                AddWaitEventToSet(set, WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH, PGINVALID_SOCKET,
                                                  NULL, NULL);
 
-- 
2.13.0

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