On 2013-12-07 13:58:11 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> FATAL means a backend died. It is kind of vague how FATAL and PANIC
> differ.
I don't really see much vagueness there. FATAL is an unexpected but
orderly shutdown. PANIC is for the situations where we can't handle the
problem that occurred in any orderly way.
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Andres Freund
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