Markus Schiltknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a good reason to print the "database system is ready" message > in StartupXLOG() in xact.c? It has a) nothing to do with xlog and b) > opens a small race condition: the message gets printed, while it still > take some CPU cycles until the postmaster really gets the SIGCHLD signal > and sets StartupPID = 0. If you (or rather: an automated test program) > try to connect within this timespan, you get a "database is starting up" > error, which clearly contradicts the "is ready" message.
I've applied a modified form of this patch. The postmaster now says "database system is ready to accept connections" after it's finished reacting to the completion of the startup process. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org