On 12/23/2015 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Depending on timing, this scheme might accidentally fail to fail, but it
> seems fragile as can be. I would bet that it's prone to deadlocks, quite
> aside from the SIGPIPE problem. Considering how amazingly ugly the
> underlying code is (exit_horribly is in parallel.c now? Really?), I want
> to rip it out entirely, not try to band-aid it by suppressing SIGPIPE ---
> though likely we need to do that too.
>
> Thoughts?
This is something that should work, period. It should be a showcase for
the code we ship because it shows how serious we take data integrity
(backups/restore etc...).
+1 for turning it into something irrefutably as close to perfect as
humans can produce.
Sincerely,
JD
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