On 2020-Jan-28, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 2:13 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > No, that's not right. I think that it is possible to loop over > > ShmemProtectiveRegion in some cases. And actually, your patch is dead > > wrong because this is some code called by the postmaster and it cannot > > use FATAL. > > Uh, really? I am not aware of such a rule.
I don't think we have ever expressed it as such, but certainly we prefer postmaster to be super robust ... rather live with a some hundred bytes leak rather than have it die and take the whole database service down for what's essentially a fringe bug that has bothered no one in a decade and a half. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
