Re: [ADMIN] postgresql in FreeBSD jails: proposal

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg(at)telus(dot)net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgresql in FreeBSD jails: proposal
Date: 2008-01-17 23:10:16
Message-ID: 16615.1200611416@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg(at)telus(dot)net> writes:
> If anyone is interested in creating hung backends, you can
> create a named pipe, and tell the server to COPY from it.

That won't create a problematic situation though, until/unless you
SIGQUIT the parent postmaster.

Personally I think of this as "what happens after someone
kill -9's a postmaster that has live children".

regards, tom lane

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