Re: Hungry postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Hungry postmaster
Date
Msg-id 15623.1118932366@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Hungry postmaster  ("Ilja Golshtein" <ilejn@yandex.ru>)
Responses Re: Hungry postmaster  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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"Ilja Golshtein" <ilejn@yandex.ru> writes:
> To be honest, I don't quite understand why PG does 'send' again and again, while
> EPIPE seems to be unrecoverable.
> Isn't it better to terminate server process?

No.  See previous discussions in the archives.

(One point is that a long-running query isn't necessarily generating any
output, anyway, so this wouldn't be a magic cure for anything.)

            regards, tom lane

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