| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Parallel worker error |
| Date: | 2017-08-30 21:28:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20170830212840.irapf5bvh7pbqp4r@alvherre.pgsql |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> In this case,
> I'll blame the fact that we allow a role to be dropped while there are
> users connected using that role. That's about as sensible as allowing
> a table to be dropped while there are users reading from it, or a
> database to be dropped while there are users connected to it, both of
> which we in fact prohibit. IOW, I'd say the problem is that we've
> allowed the system state to become inconsistent and now we're sad
> because stuff doesn't work.
>
> But since that's an established design fl^H^Hprinciple,
Actually, my first comment when Pavan mentioned this on IM was that we
should look into fixing that problem sometime. It's not terribly urgent
since it doesn't seem to hurt anything too badly, but it's still a bug.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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