Re: Performance degradation in commit ac1d794

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> A unportable and easy version of this, actually making sense this time,
> would be to use prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGQUIT). That'd send SIGQUIT to
> backends whenever postmaster dies. Obviously that's not portable
> either - doing this for linux only wouldn't be all that kludgey tho.

Hmm. That would have semantics rather substantially different from
the way that the WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH code behaves. But I don't know
how much we care about that, since the whole scenario is something
that should not happen under normal circumstances. Maybe cross-platform
variation is OK as long as it doesn't make the code too hairy.

regards, tom lane