Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 22:31 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> When a backend dies with FATAL, it writes an abort record before exiting. >> >> (I was under the impression it doesn't until few minutes ago myself, >> when I actually read the shutdown code :-))
> Not in all cases; keep reading :-) If it doesn't, that's a bug. A FATAL exit is not supposed to leave the shared state corrupted, it's only supposed to be a forcible session termination. Any open transaction should be rolled back. 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