Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2015-06-19 13:56:21 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> We discussed this when that patch got in (82233ce7ea42d6b). The reason > >> for not waiting, it was argued, is that the most likely reason for those > >> processes not to have already gone away by the time we send SIGKILL was > >> that they are stuck somewhere in the kernel, and so we might not be able > >> to actually get them to go away with the SIGKILL. As I recall, that was > >> the actual problem that MauMau was trying to get fixed. > > > How does exiting before they're dead help? They're still going to be > > attached to shared memeory and thus prevent a restart. I don't think > > hiding the problem by exiting the postmaster helps at all. > > My thought exactly.
I guess you have a point there. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, 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
