Re: Redesigning postmaster death handling

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Redesigning postmaster death handling
Date: 2025-08-21 05:45:41
Message-ID: 1377623.1755755141@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Following that line of thinking, we might as well just ask the kernel
> to hit our existing SIGQUIT handler at parent exit, on Linux/FreeBSD.
> Job done.

One other thought here: do we *really* want such a critical-and-hard-
to-test aspect of our behavior to be handled completely differently
on different platforms? I'd lean to ignoring the Linux/FreeBSD
facilities, because otherwise we're basically doubling our testing
problems in exchange for not much.

regards, tom lane

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