Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> A mishandled encoding conversion could be problematic, so that needs to >> be carefully considered (perhaps just shut off unconditionally).
> It's not really a problem for the postmaster if something just plain > old fails. Where we get into trouble is if it manages to (a) crash, > (b) take an excessive amount of time to complete, or (c) screw up the > postmaster state in some way we can't recover from. But if any of > those are an issue then, yeah, just shut it off. Keep in mind that in the postmaster, elog(ERROR) *is* a crash. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers