Stefan's bug (was: max_standby_delay considered harmful)

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Robert Haas  wrote:
> I am wondering if we are not correctly handling the case where we get
> a shutdown request while we are still in the PM_STARTUP state.  It
> looks like we might go ahead and switch to PM_RECOVERY and then
> PM_RECOVERY_CONSISTENT without noticing the shutdown.  There is some
> logic to handle the shutdown when the startup process exits, but if
> the startup process never exits it looks like we might get stuck.

I can reproduce the behavior Stefan is seeing consistently using the
attached patch.

W1: postgres -D ~/pgslave
W2: pg_ctl -D ~/pgslave stop

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