Re: elog(FATAL) vs shared memory

Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@canonical.com> writes:
> After a test is run, the test harness kills any outstanding connections so
> we can drop the test database. Without this, a failing test could leave open
> connections dangling causing the drop database to block.

Just to make it perfectly clear: we don't consider SIGTERMing individual
backends to be a supported operation (maybe someday, but not today).
That's why you had to resort to plpythonu to do this.  I hope you don't
have anything analogous in your production databases ...
        regards, tom lane