Re: Sync Rep v17

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 02:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> > <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> >> To achieve the effect Fujii is looking for, we would have to silently drop
> >> the connection. That would correctly leave the client not knowing whether
> >> the transaction committed or not.
>
> > Yeah, this seems to make more sense.
>
> It was pointed out that sending an ERROR would not do because it would
> likely lead to client code assuming the transaction failed, which might
> or might not be the case. But maybe we could send a WARNING and then
> close the connection? That would give humans a clue what had happened,
> but not do anything to the state of automated clients.

So when we perform a Fast Shutdown we want to do something fairly
similar to quickdie()?

Please review the attached patch.

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