Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session
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Msg-id AANLkTinau81rOK=acDHB-FmpmbKRyBanj-OaCEqmwP9H@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> Therefore I cannot give you specific areas where this will happen.  Of
> course when systems are low on resources or they are completely
> depleted (100% CPU) things will stop working

Of course.  As we all know, degrading gracefully under load is an
unachievable goal.

Anyway, this more or less confirms what I was kind of suspecting all
along: it's hopeless to try to avoid these exit(128) events, so we
just need to look for ways to minimize the impact as much as possible
(i.e. avoid a database PANIC where possible).

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise Postgres Company


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