Re: [HACKERS] How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

[Tom Lane]

Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The tricky part of this is not to give up the ability to restart when
>> there *has* been a crash.

> But kill -9 effectively _is_ an admin-initiated crash.

Yeah, but only a partial crash.  If the admin finishes the job by
killing the backends too, we're fine.  Postmaster down, backends alive
is not a scenario we're currently prepared for.  We need a way to plug
that gap.

                        regards, tom lane

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