Re: bgwriter never dies - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: bgwriter never dies
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Msg-id 6.0.0.22.0.20040226144050.05433a70@203.8.195.10
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In response to Re: bgwriter never dies  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: bgwriter never dies  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 12:19 AM 26/02/2004, Robert Treat wrote:
>Yes, roll back any existing/uncommited transactions and shutdown

I'm not event sure I'd go with the rollback; whatever killed the PM may 
make the rest of the system unstable. I'd prefer to see the transactions 
rolled back (if necessary) as part of the log recovery on PM startup, not 
by possibly dying PG proceses.


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