Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks)

On 2013-06-21 16:56:57 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > What we could do to improve the robustness a bit - at least on linux -
> > is to prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) which would cause children to be
> > killed if the postmaster goes away...
> 
> This is an interesting idea (even if it has no relationship to the patch
> at hand).

Well, we could just set the deathsig to SIGKILL and exit normally -
which would be a twoliner or so.
Admittedly the cross-platform issue makes this approach not so great...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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