From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_ctl kill support for KILL signal was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add test for postmaster crash restarts. |
Date: | 2017-10-01 20:48:54 |
Message-ID: | 20171001204854.ph3l6qo7b55yred3@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2017-10-01 16:42:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 09/30/2017 10:32 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Heh. I'm inclined to take it out. We could add a --use-the-force-luke
> >> type parameter, but it doesn't seem worth it.
>
> > I agree, but I think we need this discussed on -hackers. Does anyone
> > have an objection to allowing "pg_ctl kill KILL somepid"? As Andres
> > points out, in most places you can just call kill from the command line
> > anyway, so disallowing it is not really a security feature. Having it
> > would let us have portable crash restart tests.
>
> +1 for portable tests, but it still seems like something we don't want
> to encourage users to use. What do you think of leaving it out of the
> documentation?
As far as I can tell we've not documented the set of acceptable signals
anywhere but the source. I think we can just keep it that way?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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