Disconnect if socket cannot be put into non-blocking mode

Commit 387da18874 moved the code to put socket into non-blocking mode
from socket_set_nonblocking() into the one-time initialization
function, pq_init(). In socket_set_nonblocking(), there indeed was a
risk of recursion on failure like the comment said, but in pq_init(),
ERROR or FATAL is fine. There's even another elog(FATAL) just after
this, if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails.

Note that COMMERROR merely logged the error, it did not close the
connection, so if putting the socket to non-blocking mode failed we
would use the connection anyway. You might not immediately notice,
because most socket operations in a regular backend wait for the
socket to become readable/writable anyway. But e.g. replication will
be quite broken.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d40a5cd0-2722-40c5-8755-12e9e811fa3c@iki.fi

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c b/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
index c606bf34473..d9e49ca7028 100644
--- a/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
@@ -189,14 +189,10 @@ pq_init(void)
 	 * nonblocking mode and use latches to implement blocking semantics if
 	 * needed. That allows us to provide safely interruptible reads and
 	 * writes.
-	 *
-	 * Use COMMERROR on failure, because ERROR would try to send the error to
-	 * the client, which might require changing the mode again, leading to
-	 * infinite recursion.
 	 */
 #ifndef WIN32
 	if (!pg_set_noblock(MyProcPort->sock))
-		ereport(COMMERROR,
+		ereport(FATAL,
 				(errmsg("could not set socket to nonblocking mode: %m")));
 #endif