Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown
Date
Msg-id 20130131.082713.182314736837772056.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown
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> This isn't an area that admits of quick-fix solutions --- everything
> we might do has disadvantages.  Also, the lack of complaints to date
> shows that the problem is not so large as to justify panic responses.
> I'm not really inclined to mess around with a tradeoff that's been
> working pretty well for a dozen years or more.

What about adding a caution to the doc something like:
 "pg_ctl -m -i stop" may cause a PostgreSQL hang if native laguage support enabled.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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