From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Something fishy happening on frogmouth
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:50:21 +0100
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Hi,
On 2013-10-31 11:33:28 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Wait, that sounds horrible. If you kill -9 the server, and then rm -rf
> $PGDATA, the shared memory segment is leaked until next reboot? I find that
> unacceptable. There are many scenarios where you never restart postmaster
> after a crash. For example, if you have an automatic failover setup; you
> fail over to the standby in case of crash, and re-initialize the old master
> with e.g rsync.
Our main shared memory segment works the same way, doesn't it? And it
has for a long time.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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