Re: pg crashing

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: "Roberts, Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg crashing
Date: 2008-07-02 06:26:23
Message-ID: 3965.1214979983@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Another problem is that postmaster children that do
>> PGSharedMemoryDetach will still have valid inherited handles for
>> the shmem segment --- does that factor into the behavior? It looks
>> to me like the CloseHandle ought to be in PGSharedMemoryDetach.

> Not as long as the processes die. If they die, their handles go with
> them, and once the reference count goes to zero, the object goes away.

But the syslogger process (and maybe others) is *not* supposed to die.

regards, tom lane

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