Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> A mishandled encoding conversion could be problematic, so that needs to
>> be carefully considered (perhaps just shut off unconditionally).
> It's not really a problem for the postmaster if something just plain
> old fails. Where we get into trouble is if it manages to (a) crash,
> (b) take an excessive amount of time to complete, or (c) screw up the
> postmaster state in some way we can't recover from. But if any of
> those are an issue then, yeah, just shut it off.
Keep in mind that in the postmaster, elog(ERROR) *is* a crash.
regards, tom lane
