Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sergey Samokhin
Subject Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?
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In response to Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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Hello!

> You should also test your client's response to the Pg server remaining
> up but becoming non-responsive (eg: failed disk array causes Pg backends
> to remain in uninterruptable disk I/O system calls in the kernel). A
> possibly good way to do this is to SIGSTOP the backend(s).

I haven't thought about it yet. It's possible the place where I should
use timeouts on the operations involving calls to PostgreSQL.

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Sergey Samokhin

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