Erik Walthinsen <omega(at)temple-baptist(dot)com> writes:
> The problem though is still that whatever code is spawning pgstat is doing
> so forever. Are you suggesting that because the error output isn't going
> to the right place that postmaster is not detecting that it died? I'd
> think that postmaster would instead check the return value (else how does
> it determine atm that it failed?) and not loop once it's failed.
Actually, the postmaster is deliberately designed to restart pgstat.
On the whole I think that's a net plus for reliability, not a minus.
There might be some value in limiting the rate at which we try to spawn
it, though.
regards, tom lane