On Oct11, 2011, at 09:21 , Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:29, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote:
>> On Oct10, 2011, at 21:25 , Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 23:46, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote:
>>>> It'd be nice to generally terminate a backend if the client vanishes, but 
>>>> so
>>>> far I haven't had any bright ideas. Using FASYNC and F_SETOWN unfortunately
>>>> sends a signal *everytime* the fd becomes readable or writeable, not only 
>>>> on
>>>> EOF. Doing select() in CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS seems far too expensive. We 
>>>> could
>>>> make the postmaster keep the fd's of around even after forking a backend, 
>>>> and
>>>> make it watch for broken connections using select(). But with a large 
>>>> max_backends
>>>> settings, we'd risk running out of fds in the postmaster...
>>> 
>>> Ugh. Yeah. But at least catching it and terminating it when we *do*
>>> notice it's down would certainly make sense...
>> 
>> I'll try to put together a patch that sets a flag if we discover a broken
>> connection in pq_flush, and tests that flag in CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. Unless 
>> you
>> wanna, of course.
> 
> Please do, I won't have time to even think about it until after
> pgconf.eu anyway ;)

Ok, here's a first cut.

I've based this on how query cancellation due to recovery conflicts work -
internal_flush() sets QueryCancelPending and ClientConnectionLostPending.

If QueryCancelPending is set, CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS checks 
ClientConnectionLostPending, and if it's set it does ereport(FATAL).

I've only done light testing so far - basically the only case I've tested is
killing pg_basebackup while it's waiting for all required WAL to be archived.

best regards,
Florian Pflug

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