Hi, On 2013-10-31 11:33:28 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Wait, that sounds horrible. If you kill -9 the server, and then rm -rf > $PGDATA, the shared memory segment is leaked until next reboot? I find that > unacceptable. There are many scenarios where you never restart postmaster > after a crash. For example, if you have an automatic failover setup; you > fail over to the standby in case of crash, and re-initialize the old master > with e.g rsync.
Our main shared memory segment works the same way, doesn't it? And it has for a long time. 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
