Re: Client failure allows backed to continue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Why is COMMERROR not doing the longjump like ERROR?
> 
> Because it's defined to be like LOG.
> 
> A more useful reply might be that I'm not sure it's safe to abort in the
> client I/O routines.

Well, if we get an I/O error, I can't imagine why we would continue
doing anything --- are any of those recoverable?  Do we need a separate
error type for I/O messages?

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