Re: VM corruption on standby - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 4:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> But I'm of the opinion that proc_exit
>> is the wrong thing to use after seeing postmaster death, critical
>> section or no.  We should assume that system integrity is already
>> compromised, and get out as fast as we can with as few side-effects
>> as possible.  It'll be up to the next generation of postmaster to
>> try to clean up.

> Then wouldn't backends blocked in LWLockAcquire(x) hang forever, after
> someone who holds x calls _exit()?

If someone who holds x is killed by (say) the OOM killer, how do
we get out of that?

            regards, tom lane