Re: Dangling Client Backend Process - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas wrote:

> I don't think that proc_exit(1) is the right way to exit here.  It's
> not very friendly to exit without at least attempting to give the
> client a clue about what has gone wrong.  I suggest something like
> this:
> 
>             ereport(FATAL,
>                     (errcode(ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN),
>              errmsg("terminating connection due to postmaster shutdown")));

Agreed, but I don't think "shutdown" is the right word to use here --
that makes it sound like it was orderly.  Perhaps "crash"?

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