On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I already explained that killing the startup process first is a bad idea
> for many reasons when shutdown was discussed. Can't remember who added
> the new standby shutdown code recently, but it sounds like their design
> was pretty poor if it didn't include shutting down properly with HS. I
> hope they fix the bug they have introduced. HS was never designed to
> work that way, so there is no flaw there; it certainly worked when
> committed.
New smart shutdown during recovery doesn't kill the startup process until
all of the read only backends have gone away. So it works fine with HS.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center