Re: [HACKERS] Inconsistencies of service failure handling on Windows

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Was that a backend that you directly killed? Or the postmaster? The > subsequent connection failures suggest it was the postmaster. Killing > the postmaster is not a supported operation, not on Windows and not > anywhere else either. It's in

Re: [HACKERS] Inconsistencies of service failure handling on Windows

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier writes: > While playing on Windows with services, I noticed an inconsistent behavior > in the way failures are handled when using a service for a Postgres > instance. > ... > However when a backend process is directly killed something different > happens. Was that a backend that y