From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
> On 06/08/2013 11:27 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> You know, the PANIC isn't there just because we like to piss of
>> users. There's actual technical reasons that don't just go away by
>> judging the PANIC as stupid.
>
> Yes I know we aren't trying to piss off users. What I am saying is that it
> is stupid to the user that it PANICS. I apologize if that came out wrong.
I've experienced PANIC shutdown several times due to WAL full during
development. As a user, one problem with PANIC is that it dumps core. I
think core files should be dumped only when "can't happen" events has
occurred like PostgreSQL's bug. I didn't expect postgres dumps core simply
because disk is full. I want postgres to shutdown with FATAL message in
that exact case.
Regards
MauMau