Re: windows shared memory error

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: windows shared memory error
Date: 2009-05-01 15:10:11
Message-ID: 49FB10D3.1040908@enterprisedb.com
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> It strikes me that we really need to try reconnecting to the shared memory
>> here several times, and maybe the backoff need to increase each time. On a
>> loaded server this cause postgres to fail to restart fairly reliably.
>
> At the risk of sounding predictable, +1. Maybe try 5 times, repeating
> at 1, 2, 4 & 8 seconds? Any longer seems like it will be a genuine
> failure (so does 8 seconds in fact, but I don't suppose it'll hurt to
> try).

1+2+4+8 = 15 seconds

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Heikki Linnakangas
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