Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes: > 6. ... the bgwriter had already ended even though there was a backend in > progress. Postmaster regarded this situation as abnormal and caused the > recovery.
> In 8.3 or later, since postmaster doesn't regard that situation as abnormal > and just waits for all backends to exit again, the problem doesn't happen. > I think that this is a bug in 8.2 and should be fixed in the same way as 8.3 > does. Thought? My recollection is that that change was associated with some pretty significant revisions to the postmaster state machine. I'm concerned about the risks involved in back-patching that. This seems to be a corner case with pretty minimal consequences anyway, so I'm inclined to leave 8.2 alone. Now, if I'm wrong about that and you can produce a simple and obviously correct patch for 8.2, go ahead. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs