Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add test for postmaster crash restarts. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

[re-adding commiters which I inadvertently left off]


On 09/30/2017 06:10 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>
>> I was just looking at this. Why aren't we using "pg_ctl kill" to
>> terminate the backend? That's supposed to be portable.
> Because pg_ctl can't do that for any process but postmaster, no? The
> test is supposed to find issues with backend death (and has
> defficiencies in error reporting already, and would have caught a bug
> I'd introduced previously).
>


No, I don't think so. That's not what the docs say. That's why you give
it a pid argument" "pg_ctl kill signal_name process_id"

cheers

andrew

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