Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
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Msg-id 3AA45D24.DF56502C@wgcr.org
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In response to How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, there's always the possibility of a bug leading to postmaster
> coredump.  Historically those have been pretty rare though.

I have never personally seen one, since 6.1.1.
> In any case, I'm not sure that the init script is the place to be
> solving these problems.

Well, I do kindof have the responsibility to allow the system to shut
down..... I'll have to double check -- there may be a timeout mechanism
in the RedHat init to reap off shutdown scripts -- but I haven't yet
found it.  Better to gracefully yank the plugs than have the grim reaper
yank them in the wrong order for you, in any case.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11


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