Mischa Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If anyone is interested in creating hung backends, you can > create a named pipe, and tell the server to COPY from it.
That won't create a problematic situation though, until/unless you SIGQUIT the parent postmaster. Personally I think of this as "what happens after someone kill -9's a postmaster that has live children". regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster