Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
Date: 2001-03-06 02:36:56
Message-ID: 3AA44D48.50E45618@wgcr.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> The tricky part of this is not to give up the ability to restart when
> there *has* been a crash.

But kill -9 effectively _is_ an admin-initiated crash.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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