Re: Inconsistencies of service failure handling on Windows

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies of service failure handling on Windows
Date: 2014-07-23 14:26:58
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRpuLVRkN-WJmbnSREiDayRU7MYzA5L2AdPSvto8DqTWA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Was that a backend that you directly killed? Or the postmaster? The
> subsequent connection failures suggest it was the postmaster. Killing
> the postmaster is not a supported operation, not on Windows and not
> anywhere else either. It's in the category of "doctor, it hurts when
> I do this".
>
The headshot was done on random backends. Perhaps in some of those tests
the postmaster was taken down though :) I didn't check postmaster.pid all
the time.
--
Michael

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