>> It's a good question if that still makes sense with Hot Standby. >> Perhaps we should redefine smart shutdown in standby mode to shut down >> as soon as all read-only connections have died. > > It's clear that "smart" shutdown doesn't work while something is active. > Recovery is "active" and so we shouldn't shutdown. It makes sense, it > works like this already, lets leave it. Document it if needed.
I don't think it's clear, or intuitive for users. In SR, recovery is *never* done, so smart shutdown never completes (even if the master is shut down, when I tested it). This is particularly an important issue when you consider that some/many service and init scripts only use smart shutdown ... so we'll get a lot of "bug reports" of "posgresql does not shut down". HOWEVER, I do believe this is an issue we could live with for 9.0 if it's going to lead to a whole lot of additional debugging of SR. But if it's an easy fix, it'll avoid a lot of complaints on pgsql-general. --Josh Berkus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
