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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: "Brandl, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.brandl@brz.gv.at>
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Subject: Re: restart_after_crash
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Re: Brandl, Wolfgang 2018-09-12 <F2EB158D72DC6A4F97877DD0BB6F020E65065972@CMD0MBX-AB01.cmd0.cna.at>
> Hi
> We are testing
> restart_after_crash = on
> 
> What is a cras? We killed the Postgres process with -9 SIGSEGV SIGABRT etc.. But never postgres is restarting.

You need to kill a backend process. If you kill the postmaster, there
is nothing that could restart.

Christoph