Re: Win32 hard crash problem

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Win32 hard crash problem
Date: 2006-09-05 21:07:32
Message-ID: b42b73150609051407q1fa7669cr58bed105dc043c23@mail.gmail.com
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On 9/5/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > 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.

it does for me, at least for me when I used to work with windows :).
I think it just doesn't restart for this particular type of crash. I
had a couple of similarly wierd undetectable windows problems that I
could never quite figured out until I got hired by another company and
left that monster behind for good.

merlin

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