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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression
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Msg-id 12000.1244468858@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I think the accepted way to handle this kind of situation is called STONITH --
> "Shoot The Other Node In The Head".

Yeah, and the reason people go to the trouble of having special hardware
for that is that pure-software solutions are unreliable.

I think the proposed don't-restart flag is exceedingly ugly and will not
solve any real-world problem.
        regards, tom lane

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