Re: pg_ctl kill support for KILL signal was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add test for postmaster crash restarts.

On 2017-10-01 16:42:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 09/30/2017 10:32 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Heh. I'm inclined to take it out. We could add a --use-the-force-luke
> >> type parameter, but it doesn't seem worth it.
>
> > I agree, but I think we need this discussed on -hackers. Does anyone
> > have an objection to allowing "pg_ctl kill KILL somepid"? As Andres
> > points out, in most places you can just call kill from the command line
> > anyway, so disallowing it is not really a security feature. Having it
> > would let us have portable crash restart tests.
>
> +1 for portable tests, but it still seems like something we don't want
> to encourage users to use. What do you think of leaving it out of the
> documentation?

As far as I can tell we've not documented the set of acceptable signals
anywhere but the source. I think we can just keep it that way?

Greetings,

Andres Freund