On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 08:52 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > 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.
When I test it, startup process holding a lock does not prevent shutdown of a standby. I'd be happy to see your test case showing a bug exists and that the behaviour differs from normal running. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers