On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:01:57AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dunno ... I cannot recall ever having had that as a debugging requirement
> in a couple of decades worth of PG bug-chasing. If the postmaster is
> dying, you generally want to deal with that before bothering with child
> processes. Moreover, child processes that don't go awy when the
> postmaster does are a very nasty problem, because they could screw up
> subsequent debugging work.
At the same time, nobody has really complained about this being an
issue for developer options. I would tend to wait for more opinions
before doing anything with the auth_delay GUCs.
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Michael