Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But are you saying it *is* safe with SIGTERM to a backend? > > I'm saying I'm not happy about promoting that to the status of a > supported feature. Up to now it's always been "if it breaks you > get to keep both pieces", but if there's a built-in function to do it > then people will naturally expect a certain level of reliability. > > Maybe it works fine, maybe it doesn't. But I foresee having to expend > work down the road because of this addition.
I assume admins are already doing this (via kill), so whether it is supported or not, we should give folks a safe way to do this. This seems like basic functionality we should be giving admins, even if it does take some work on our part. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
