On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > I still think that we'd be better off to just return an error to the client in > postmaster, rather than deal with this dead-end children mess. That was > perhaps justified at some point, but now it seems to add way more complexity > than it's worth. And it's absurdly expensive to fork to return an error. Way > more expensive than just having postmaster send an error and close the socket.
The tricky case is the one where the client write() -- or SSL_write() -- blocks. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com