On 2013-06-21 16:56:57 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > What we could do to improve the robustness a bit - at least on linux - > > is to prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) which would cause children to be > > killed if the postmaster goes away... > > This is an interesting idea (even if it has no relationship to the patch > at hand).
Well, we could just set the deathsig to SIGKILL and exit normally - which would be a twoliner or so. Admittedly the cross-platform issue makes this approach not so great... Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
