| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| 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 03:44:36 |
| Message-ID: | 3AA45D24.DF56502C@wgcr.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, there's always the possibility of a bug leading to postmaster
> coredump. Historically those have been pretty rare though.
I have never personally seen one, since 6.1.1.
> In any case, I'm not sure that the init script is the place to be
> solving these problems.
Well, I do kindof have the responsibility to allow the system to shut
down..... I'll have to double check -- there may be a timeout mechanism
in the RedHat init to reap off shutdown scripts -- but I haven't yet
found it. Better to gracefully yank the plugs than have the grim reaper
yank them in the wrong order for you, in any case.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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