On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 21:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I strongly believe you're in the minority on that one, for the same
>> reasons that I don't think most people would agree with your notion of
>> what should be the default shutdown mode. A database that can't
>> accept new connections is a liability, not an asset.
>
> Killing active sessions when it's not absolutely necessary is not an
> asset.
It certainly can be. Consider any connection pooling scenario, which
would represent the vast majority of larger deployments today - if you
don't kill the sessions, they will never go away.
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Magnus Hagander
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