On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 at 06:30, Michael Paquier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 12:11:45PM +0530, Ayush Tiwari wrote: > > No need to. I have poked at this problem a bit more, stracing my way > as you did, and after more testing across v15~HEAD, I have applied it. > For v15, a difference becomes necessary at HandleChildCrash(), or we > would begin to fail the shutdown sequence should the startup process > have the idea to PANIC. This maps with the changes in v18 and HEAD > where this has been replaced by a switch/case. > > Another thing that I have spent a long time looking at is > process_pm_child_exit() and the interference that this could generate > for the startup process case, but here as well I did not spot any > issue, so I think that we are in the clear. > > There was also a comment at the top of postmaster.c that incorrectly > claimed that the checkpointer and the background writer were only > started after switch to PM_RECOVERY, which was wrong. I have tweaked > that while on it. > > That was a good catch overall. > > Thanks a lot Michael for looking into it and pushing it! Regards, Ayush
