Re: [HACKERS] elog() executed by postmaster

> elog() should probably check for being in the postmaster and force
> a postmaster shutdown if it gets elog(FATAL).  Should elog(ERROR)
> do the same, or do we want to try to add a return-to-main-loop
> capability in the postmaster?  I'm inclined to keep it simple and
> just do an orderly shutdown in both cases.  Any such code paths that
> are out there are obviously not heavily exercised, so I doubt that
> it's worth adding new code to try to recover from elog(ERROR).

Agreed.  Just try simple first.

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