On 2014-04-16 11:37:47 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > I think we probably also need a way to exit that's treated as an error, > > but doesn't lead to a PANIC restart. > > Why can't that be handled through ereport(ERROR/FATAL) rather than > through the choice of exit status? It seems to me that the only point > of the exit status is or should be to provide feedback to the > postmaster on how it should respond to the background worker's > untimely demise. If any other information needs to be conveyed, the > worker should log that itself rather than trying to tell the > postmaster what to log.
I dislike that because it essentially requires the bgworker to have a full error catching environment like PostgresMain() has. That seems bad for many cases. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
