On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > When we panic, we PANIC, meaning we don't jump around looking for > > cleanup stuff, which might make things worse. > > I think also there was some thought that we should intentionally leave > the shmem segment around for debugging purposes. > > In any case, I believe the behavior complained of here is specific to > --single mode, which is surely not a production scenario, thus even > less reason to be concerned about it. (If a postmaster child panics, > the postmaster will still shut down normally and thus release the > shmem segment.) > Yup, if I attempt to start the cluster normally, it cleans up after itself, so this is specific to --single mode.
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