On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 07:10 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > >> I'm not sure what to make of this. Sometimes not shutting down >> doesn't sound like a feature to me. > > It acts exactly the same in recovery as in normal running. It is not a > special feature of recovery at all, bug or otherwise.
Simon, that doesn't make any sense. We are talking about a backend getting stuck forever on an exclusive lock that is held by the startup process and which will never be released (for example, because the master has shut down and no more WAL can be obtained for replay). The startup process does not hold locks in normal operation. There are other things we might want to change about the shutdown behavior (for example, switching from smart to fast automatically after N seconds) which could apply to both the primary and the standby and which might also be workarounds for this problem, but this particular issue is specific to Hot Standby mode and pretending otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
