Tom Lane wrote:
> Stuart Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>   
>> After a test is run, the test harness kills any outstanding connections so
>> we can drop the test database. Without this, a failing test could leave open
>> connections dangling causing the drop database to block.
>>     
>
> Just to make it perfectly clear: we don't consider SIGTERMing individual
> backends to be a supported operation (maybe someday, but not today).
> That's why you had to resort to plpythonu to do this.  I hope you don't
> have anything analogous in your production databases ...
>   
Ah, that could explain it. With the recent patches it seems to be
working OK, but I guess we should find a more standard way to rejig the
db during the test runs.

Mark

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