Re: windows doesn't notice backend death

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: windows doesn't notice backend death
Date: 2009-05-04 08:45:09
Message-ID: 49FEAB15.8040006@hagander.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> FWIW, this certainly used to work. So we've either broken this recently,
>> or it's always been broken on Vista (I've never tried it myself on
>> Vista, only 2000, XP and 2003).
>
> Maybe a quick check if it still works on non-Vista versions would be
> in order, to eliminate one or the other of those theories.

I'll have to take this back.

I just tested back to 8.2.latest on XP, and it has the same behavior. We
don't notice a "kill -9" from the task manager.

If it worked, it's either <8.2, or it's something that changed with a
service pack to XP as well.

//Magnus

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