Re: Minor race-condition problem during database startup

Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>> Zdenek Kotala napsal(a):
>>> By my opinion there is not reason to retry kill call, because it fails 
>>> only in situation if process does not exist or caller does not have 
>>> permission to send a signal.
> 
>> If I think more about it, that code is here because it probably tries to bypass 
>> time when bgwriter is restarted.
> 
> Correct.  Did you read the commit log message?
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-11/msg00269.php

No. I thought that I look on old code. :(
Zdenek