Re: Latches, loop and exit

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:40 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > However, if the following clause is ever invoked, then the loop does
> > have problems and we leave when not caught up.
> >
> > if (!PostmasterIsAlive(true))
> >     exit(1);
> 
> As the comment above that says, that's just an escape hatch if 
> postmaster dies unexpectedly for any reason. It won't happen in a normal 
> shutdown.

Thanks for clarifying. I wanted to copy the logic, so just checking.

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