Re: windows doesn't notice backend death

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> FWIW there is (or there was, last time I looked) an exit(1) call in the
> guts of the PHP library that PL/php uses, which is triggered when the
> memory used goes over the configured memory limit.  It was very easily
> triggered with some of the test functions we had on our regression
> tests, and the only solution was to kludge up the limit.

I don't think we'll be able to prevent PHP from doing that :-(.  But
it now seems clear that we should try to make the database as a whole
recover with some degree of grace.  I'll go work up a patch.
        regards, tom lane