Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> ... I killed a backend using the task manager, and
>> the postmaster never noticed.
>>
>
> Ick. Is it possible that the postmaster did get a report, but thought
> it was normal session termination? If so, how could we distinguish?
>
>
>
If that were the case then it would not have the dead process still
listed as a live backend, ISTM, which it does.
cheers
andrew
