Re: Proposal to add a QNX 6.5 port to PostgreSQL

On 2014-08-04 10:54:25 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Even without that issue, there's no consensus that forcibly making
> > orphan backends exit would be a good thing.  (Some people would
> > like to have such an option, but the key word in that sentence is
> > "option".)
> 
> I believe that multiple people have said multiple times that we should
> change the behavior so that orphaned backends exit immediately; I
> think you are the only one defending the current behavior.  There are
> several problems with the status quo:

+1. I think the current behaviour is a seriously bad idea.

Greetings,

Andres Freund