Re: PG in container w/ pid namespace is init, process exits cause restart

On 5/3/21 5:13 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
>
>> Maybe we should put in a startup-time check, analogous to the
>> can't-run-as-root test, that the postmaster mustn't be PID 1.
> Given that a number of minimal `init`s already exist specifically for
> the case of running a single application in a container, I don't think
> Postgres should to reinvent that wheel. A quick eyball of the output of
> `apt search container init` on a Debian Bullseyse system reveals at
> least four:
>
> - https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init
> - https://github.com/krallin/tini
> - https://github.com/fpco/pid1
> - https://github.com/openSUSE/catatonit
>
> The first one also explains why there's more to being PID 1 than just
> handling reparented children.
>

I looked at the first of these, and it seems perfectly sensible. So I
agree all we really need to do is refuse to run as PID 1.

cheers

andrew

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