Re: Hungry postmaster

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: ilejn(at)yandex(dot)ru
Cc: iharding(at)destinydata(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hungry postmaster
Date: 2005-06-16 14:32:46
Message-ID: 15623.1118932366@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Ilja Golshtein" <ilejn(at)yandex(dot)ru> writes:
> To be honest, I don't quite understand why PG does 'send' again and again, while
> EPIPE seems to be unrecoverable.
> Isn't it better to terminate server process?

No. See previous discussions in the archives.

(One point is that a long-running query isn't necessarily generating any
output, anyway, so this wouldn't be a magic cure for anything.)

regards, tom lane

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