On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:39:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> While it's not POSIX, at least some platforms are capable of delivering
> a separate signal on parent process death. Perhaps using that where
> available would be enough of an answer.
Are you referring to prctl here?
+1 on improving performance of PostmasterIsAlive() if possible instead
of checking for it every N records. You barely see records creating a
database from a large template close to each other but that could hurt
the response time of the redo process.
--
Michael
