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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks)
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Msg-id CA+TgmoY+ysHkBKE09=MDyY2biYHr_h1tOvJaLvEUCA1UnbWu1Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks)  ("MauMau" <maumau307@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:02 PM, MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm comfortable with 5 seconds.  We are talking about the interval between
> sending SIGQUIT to the children and then sending SIGKILL to them.  In most
> situations, the backends should terminate immediately.  However, as I said a
> few months ago, ereport() call in quickdie() can deadlock indefinitely. This
> is a PostgreSQL's bug.

So let's fix that bug.  Then we don't need this.

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Robert Haas
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