Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg@telus.net> writes:
> I'm going to skip the kill(1,0) test and depend on nattch only,
> with a function that PGSharedMemoryIsInUse() can also use.
> (For a healthy server, nattch is never less than 2, right?)
Oh, forgot to mention: healthy servers are not the point here.
You should make the code keep its hands off any segment with
nonzero nattch, because even one orphaned backend is enough
to cause trouble.
regards, tom lane
