On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 21:37, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
>> I strongly believe you're in the minority on that one, for the same
>> reasons that I don't think most people would agree with your notion of
>> what should be the default shutdown mode.  A database that can't
>> accept new connections is a liability, not an asset.
>
> Killing active sessions when it's not absolutely necessary is not an
> asset.

It certainly can be. Consider any connection pooling scenario, which
would represent the vast majority of larger deployments today - if you
don't kill the sessions, they will never go away.

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