Greg Stark wrote:

>>I would vote for the kernel, if the server didn't respond within 5
>>seconds, to simply return EIO. At least we know how to handle that...
> 
> 
> How do you handle it? By having Postgres shut down? And then the NFS server
> comes back and then what?

Log the error if you can.
Refuse new connections - until it is back up.
Refuse or hang new queries - until it is back up.

Retry?

What should be done?

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