Re: elog() proposal

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I think FATALALL is good, because it tells you exactly what is going on,
> > namely the same as FATAL but for all sessions.
>
> But it isn't the same. If all backends FATAL'ed at once, that wouldn't
> provoke the postmaster to wipe shared memory and run a WAL recovery
> cycle.

I called it FATALALL because the effect is to have all backends
FATALly terminate.

> What do you think of Karl's suggestion of PANIC?

That is good too. The FATAL becomes like a process segfault, and PANIC
is like a kernel panic.

I don't have a preference. I will let you folks duke it out. :-)
(I guess I lean toward PANIC. Sounds cooler. Not sure that is a good
reason. :-) )

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