Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Start background writer during archive recovery.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe the postmaster should wait for startup process exit before
>> deciding to open for business, instead of just a signal.

> Not a bad idea. Although, there's nothing wrong with the current way 
> either. The startup process does a proc_exit(0) right after sending the 
> signal ATM, so there's no real work left at that point.

The thing wrong with it is assuming that nothing interesting will happen
during proc_exit().  We hang enough stuff on on_proc_exit hooks that
that seems like a pretty shaky assumption.
        regards, tom lane