| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Baker, Keith [OCDUS Non-J&J]" <KBaker9(at)its(dot)jnj(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal to add a QNX 6.5 port to PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2014-08-09 16:29:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20140809162917.GA23678@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-08-04 10:54:25 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Even without that issue, there's no consensus that forcibly making
> > orphan backends exit would be a good thing. (Some people would
> > like to have such an option, but the key word in that sentence is
> > "option".)
>
> I believe that multiple people have said multiple times that we should
> change the behavior so that orphaned backends exit immediately; I
> think you are the only one defending the current behavior. There are
> several problems with the status quo:
+1. I think the current behaviour is a seriously bad idea.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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