Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Yeah, the reason this hasn't ever been seen is that normally we don't
> have permissions to signal init.
... and that the only consequence of the failed kill() would be that the
launcher doesn't get the signal to rebalance costs after a worker
launch, which I guess doesn't have any obvious bad effects.
regards, tom lane