On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 22:31 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > * if FATAL errors occur, yet we have long running transactions then we
> > have no way of removing those entries from the recovery procs. Since we
> > have a fixed pool of recovery transactions we won't have anywhere to
> > store that data. Snapshot sizes are fixed maximum with max_connections,
> > so eventually we would not be able to take a snapshot at all, and we'd
> > need to have a "ERROR: unable to take valid snapshot".
>
> When a backend dies with FATAL, it writes an abort record before exiting.
>
> (I was under the impression it doesn't until few minutes ago myself,
> when I actually read the shutdown code :-))
Not in all cases; keep reading :-)
The good thing is we have a choice now as to whether we care about that,
or not.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support