On 2015-06-19 13:56:21 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > We discussed this when that patch got in (82233ce7ea42d6b). The reason > for not waiting, it was argued, is that the most likely reason for those > processes not to have already gone away by the time we send SIGKILL was > that they are stuck somewhere in the kernel, and so we might not be able > to actually get them to go away with the SIGKILL. As I recall, that was > the actual problem that MauMau was trying to get fixed.
How does exiting before they're dead help? They're still going to be attached to shared memeory and thus prevent a restart. I don't think hiding the problem by exiting the postmaster helps at all. I don't think it's our job to protect against processes stuck in the kernel. If that happens something seriously has gone wrong, and we shouldn't just continue without making that visible. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
