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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg@telus.net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgresql in FreeBSD jails: proposal
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:10:16 -0500
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Mischa Sandberg <mischa_sandberg@telus.net> writes:
> If anyone is interested in creating hung backends, you can
> create a named pipe, and tell the server to COPY from it.

That won't create a problematic situation though, until/unless you
SIGQUIT the parent postmaster.

Personally I think of this as "what happens after someone
kill -9's a postmaster that has live children".

			regards, tom lane



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