Re: Win32 hard crash problem

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Oops, going backwards through the mails it seems :)
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>> Subsequent connections to the database will fail (such as pgAdmin)
>> and Windows must be completely rebooted.
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> Fail in what way. Hang, not connect, or get an error msg?
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>> PostgreSQL will also not recover on its own (e.g; auto restart and
>> roll through the logs).
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> What do you mean by this? It doesn't start upon reboot? What is needed
> to make it start?

It means that postgresql doesn't recover on its own. On linux if a
backend crashes all of PostgreSQL will restart and come back up if it can.

On Win32 it doesn't.

Joshua D. Drake

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