Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com, andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown
Date: 2013-01-30 23:27:13
Message-ID: 20130131.082713.182314736837772056.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> This isn't an area that admits of quick-fix solutions --- everything
> we might do has disadvantages. Also, the lack of complaints to date
> shows that the problem is not so large as to justify panic responses.
> I'm not really inclined to mess around with a tradeoff that's been
> working pretty well for a dozen years or more.

What about adding a caution to the doc something like:

"pg_ctl -m -i stop" may cause a PostgreSQL hang if native laguage support enabled.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

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