On 12th October 2015 20:45, Rajeev Rastogi Wrote: >>> I observed one strange behavior today that if postmaster process gets >>> crashed/killed, then it kill all background processes but not the client >>> backend process.
>> This is a known behaviour and there was some discussion on this >> topic [1] previously as well. > Now as it is confirmed to be valid issue, I will spend some time on this to > find if there is something more appropriate solution. I checked the latest code and found Heikki has already added code for secure_read using the latch mechanism (using WaitLatchOrSocket). It currently waits for two events i.e. WL_LATCH_SET and WL_SOCKET_READABLE. Commit id: 80788a431e9bff06314a054109fdea66ac538199 If we add the event WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH also, client backend process handling will become same as other backend process. So postmaster death can be detected in the same way. But I am not sure if WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH event was not added intentionally for some reason. Please confirm. Also is it OK to add this even handling in generic path of Libpq? Please let me know if I am missing something? Thanks and Regards, Kumar Rajeev Rastogi