Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > If postmaster dies, and then another backend crashes, then your > backend running "your honking big query" could run across > corrupted state and then you'd be in serious trouble. Worst of all, it could give bogus results without error. I really don't see a production use case for letting backends continue after postmaster failure -- unless you only kinda, sorta care whether committed data is actually retrievable or reported data is actually accurate. -Kevin
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