Re: Improve shutdown during online backup, take 4

"Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why not?  It'll fall out of the state again immediately in
>> PostmasterStateMachine, no, if we do a CancelBackup here?

> We cannot call CancelBackup there because that's exactly the state
> in which a smart shutdown waits for a superuser to issue pg_stop_backup().

Er, I was complaining about the fast-shutdown code path, not the
smart-shutdown one.

            regards, tom lane