"Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes" <marcus(dot)magalhaes(at)vlinfo(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> Anyway, the fact that a postgres process was alive & kicking & eating
> CPU power after pg_dump exited is a normal behaviour?
Yes; it'll finish out the current command before noticing that the
client connection was dropped. In this case the current command
happened to be a long-running one ...
If you can reproduce the crash-on-SIGTERM behavior I'd like to know how.
*That*, if real, is a bug.
regards, tom lane