Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sure if you read the footers on Tom's email's it's pretty clearly stated > 'do not kill -9 the postmaster'. > So I'm not so sure that this is really a bug.
The operating environment is free to kill -9 the postmaster at any time, and PostgreSQL is expected to ensure database consistency nevertheless. After all, PostgreSQL is a database and not a cardbox. (But holes in sequence numbers certainly do not endanger database consistency.) -- Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT fax +49-711-685-5898 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])