On 2013-12-07 13:58:11 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> FATAL means a backend died. It is kind of vague how FATAL and PANIC
> differ.

I don't really see much vagueness there. FATAL is an unexpected but
orderly shutdown. PANIC is for the situations where we can't handle the
problem that occurred in any orderly way.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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