Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I played around a little with signal handling to collect the dying > postmaster and report and error; see attached rough patch. I'm not > exactly understanding how this works though. I would expect lots of > psql zombies for example, because those go through the same > spawn_process() call, but I'm not seeing any.
That's because wait_for_tests wait()s for them. AFAICS the only way you'd end up with a zombie postmaster is if pg_ctl stop fails, but I'm failing to understand why that's likely to happen. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers