Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> writes: > Thank you for the explanation. My initial thinking was that either > DoingCommandRead would protect us (for SIGINT to the backend), or we > were going to terminate the process anyway (for SIGTERM). But it sounds > like it leaves us in a state so unsafe that we can't even abort the > transaction nicely.
Well, we could presumably do exit(1) regardless. But if the idea is to have a clean shutdown, you have to get through proc_exit(), and that requires essentially all the backend subsystems to be alive and undamaged. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs