On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 17:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What does postmaster do then? Sleep until archiver is done, or exit > > immediately and hope that the archiver goes away as soon as it finishes? > > I think it can just exit immediately, particularly if we invent the > variant signal for "archive what you can and then quit". > > > If the former, then we open the possibility that postmaster lives far > > too long before system shutdown decides to SIGKILL it. If the latter, > > then a subsequent postmaster start could initiate a second archiver > > process which would cause issues with whatever the first archiver is > > doing. > > That's a problem that the archiver itself should fix (perhaps it needs > its own lockfile).
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