Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Travers <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com>, Cristian Bittel <cbittel(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session
Date: 2010-09-15 17:25:41
Message-ID: AANLkTinau81rOK=acDHB-FmpmbKRyBanj-OaCEqmwP9H@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> Therefore I cannot give you specific areas where this will happen.  Of
> course when systems are low on resources or they are completely
> depleted (100% CPU) things will stop working

Of course. As we all know, degrading gracefully under load is an
unachievable goal.

Anyway, this more or less confirms what I was kind of suspecting all
along: it's hopeless to try to avoid these exit(128) events, so we
just need to look for ways to minimize the impact as much as possible
(i.e. avoid a database PANIC where possible).

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company

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