Re: windows shared memory error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: windows shared memory error
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Msg-id 49FB10D3.1040908@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: windows shared memory error  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Re: windows shared memory error
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> It strikes me that we really need to try reconnecting to the shared memory
>> here several times, and maybe the backoff need to increase each time. On a
>> loaded server this cause postgres to fail to restart fairly reliably.
> 
> At the risk of sounding predictable, +1. Maybe try 5 times, repeating
> at 1, 2, 4 & 8 seconds? Any longer seems like it will be a genuine
> failure (so does 8 seconds in fact, but I don't suppose it'll hurt to
> try).

1+2+4+8 = 15 seconds

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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