On 01/05/2016 04:12 PM, oleg yusim wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I meant a scenario, when user is trying to connect to database (doesn't
> matter what interface) and database fails at this moment. If all
> authentication/authorization/validation functions are written to return
> false in case of abnormal termination, we are fine. If not, we can
> potentially encounter the situation when database fails into state where
> user is given greater privileges than he/she should or even
> authenticated, when he/she shouldn't.
Might want to take a look at:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c;h=41dbdf4bf9eeb54ae0a774ab21fc1c1362aa55f9;hb=d25c7d70ff46d1b2f2400f29d100190efe84d70d
/*
* CleanupBackend -- cleanup after terminated backend.
*
* Remove all local state associated with backend.
*
* If you change this, see also CleanupBackgroundWorker.
*/
static void
CleanupBackend
/*
* HandleChildCrash -- cleanup after failed backend, bgwriter, checkpointer,
* walwriter, autovacuum, or background worker.
*
* The objectives here are to clean up our local state about the child
* process, and to signal all other remaining children to quickdie.
*/
static void
HandleChildCrash(in
etc
Just do a find on crash.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oleg
>
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Adrian Klaver
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