Re: RFC: Add 'taint' field to pg_control. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: RFC: Add 'taint' field to pg_control.
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Msg-id B6305103-A75E-4BE4-A5C9-83B623CA3EED@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: RFC: Add 'taint' field to pg_control.  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: RFC: Add 'taint' field to pg_control.  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On March 7, 2018 5:51:29 PM PST, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>My favourite remains an organisation that kept "fixing" an issue by
>kill
>-9'ing the postmaster and removing postmaster.pid to make it start up
>again. Without killing all the leftover backends. Of course, the system
>kept getting more unstable and broken, so they did it more and more
>often.
>They were working on scripting it when they gave up and asked for help.

Maybe I'm missing something, but that ought to not work. The shmem segment that we keep around would be a conflict, no?

Andres
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