On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:31:06PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > This is the first time I've seen an indication that the
> > start_postmaster change mentioned in the comment is actually important
> > for production use, rather than just being cleanup.
I scratched my head awhile without thinking of a credible production use case
that would notice the difference. Which one did you have in mind?
> Note that this makes the test case in question fail reliably, which is
> reasonable behavior IMO so I just changed the test.
That's the better behavior, agreed.