Re: BUG #4522: autovacuum working send SIGUSR1 to the wrong pid - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #4522: autovacuum working send SIGUSR1 to the wrong pid
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Msg-id 29698.1226497733@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #4522: autovacuum working send SIGUSR1 to the wrong pid  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Yeah, the reason this hasn't ever been seen is that normally we don't
> have permissions to signal init.

... and that the only consequence of the failed kill() would be that the
launcher doesn't get the signal to rebalance costs after a worker
launch, which I guess doesn't have any obvious bad effects.

            regards, tom lane

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