POSIX sigaction(2) can be told to block a set of signals while a
signal handler executes. Make use of that instead of manually
blocking and unblocking signals in the postmaster's signal handlers.
This should save a few cycles, but more importantly it prevents
recursive invocation of signal handlers when many signals arrive in
close succession. (Assuming that the platform's signal infrastructure
is designed to avoid consuming stack space in that case, but this is
demonstrably true at least on Linux.) The existing code has been seen
to recurse to the point of stack overflow, either in the postmaster
or in a forked-off child.
Back-patch of commit 9abb2bfc0. At the time, we'd only seen excess
postmaster stack consumption in the buildfarm; but we now have a
user report of it, and that commit has aged enough to have a fair
amount of confidence that it doesn't break anything.
This still doesn't change anything about the way that it works on
Windows. Perhaps someone else would like to fix that?
Per bug #16673 from David Geier. Back-patch to 9.6. Although
the problem exists in principle before that, we've only seen it
actually materialize in connection with heavy use of parallel
workers, so it doesn't seem necessary to do anything in 9.5;
and the relevant code is different there, too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16673-d278c604f8e34ec0@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14878.1570820201@sss.pgh.pa.us
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