On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> MauMau escribió:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I did this. Please find attached the revised patch. I modified
>> HandleChildCrash(). I tested the immediate shutdown, and the child
>> cleanup succeeded.
>
> Thanks, committed.
>
> There are two matters pending here:
>
> 1. do we want postmaster to exit immediately after sending the SIGKILL,
> or hang around until all children are gone?
>
> 2. how far do we want to backpatch this, if at all?
Considering that neither Tom nor I was convinced that this was a good
idea AT ALL, I'm surprised you committed it in the first place. I'd
be more inclined to revert it than back-patch it, but at least if we
only change it in HEAD we have some chance of finding out whether or
not it is in fact a bad idea before it's too late to change our mind.
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