On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > a significant number of WaitLatch's in the backend currently don't check > for postmaster death. That's imo wrong. E.g. SELECT pg_sleep(100); just > continues to run. > > I think we should change most sites to error out in that case. I wonder > if we shouldn't add another WL_ flag that automatically makes the latch > code do so; instead of repeating the code at every callsite.
Yeah, or just make it do it always. And probably FATAL rather than ERROR. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
