On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > I will go with 5 seconds, then.
I'm uncomfortable with this whole concept, and particularly with such a short timeout. On a very busy system, things can take a LOT longer than they think we should; it can take 30 seconds or more just to get a prompt back from a shell command. 5 seconds is the blink of an eye. More generally, what do we think the point is of sending SIGQUIT rather than SIGKILL in the first place, and why does that point cease to be valid after 5 seconds? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
