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In the name of ABI stability (that is, to avoid a library major version bump for libpq), libpq still exports a version of pqsignal() that we no longer want to use ourselves. However, since that has the same link name as the function exported by src/port/pqsignal.c, there is a link ordering dependency determining which version will actually get used by code that uses libpq as well as libpgport.a. It now emerges that the wrong version has been used by pgbench and psql since commit 06843df4a rearranged their link commands. This can result in odd failures in pgbench with the -T switch, since its SIGALRM handler will now not be marked SA_RESTART. psql may have some edge-case problems in \watch, too. Since we don't want to depend on link ordering effects anymore, let's fix this in the same spirit as b6c7cfac8: use macros to change the actual link names of the competing functions. We cannot change legacy-pqsignal.c's exported name of course, so the victim has to be src/port/pqsignal.c. In master, rename its exported name to be pqsignal_fe in frontend or pqsignal_be in backend. (We could perhaps have gotten away with using the same symbol in both cases, but since the FE and BE versions now work a little differently, it seems advisable to use different names.) In back branches, rename to pqsignal_fe in frontend but keep it as pqsignal in backend. The frontend change could affect third-party code that is calling pqsignal from libpgport.a or libpgport_shlib.a, but only if the code is compiled against port.h from a different minor release than libpgport. Since we don't support using libpgport as a shared library, it seems unlikely that there will be such a problem. I left the backend symbol unchanged to avoid an ABI break for extensions. This means that the link ordering hazard still exists for any extension that links against libpq. However, none of our own extensions use both pqsignal() and libpq, and we're not making things any worse for third-party extensions that do. Report from Andy Fan, diagnosis by Fujii Masao, patch by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, as 06843df4a was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87msfz5qv2.fsf@163.com
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