On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I think this argument is bogus: if this is a real issue, then no use of > kill() anytime, by anyone, is safe. In practice I believe that Unix > systems avoid recycling PIDs right away so as to offer some protection.
I'm not sure they do anything more sophisticated than cycling through a sufficiently-large PID space, but whether it's that or something else, I guess it must be adequate or they'd have enlarged the space... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
