On 08/24/2012 03:46 PM, John D. West wrote:
> I have various background processes outside of postgres that need to be
> killed and restarted after the server reboots.
>
> -- John
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov <mailto:Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>> wrote:
>
> "John D. West" <john(dot)d(dot)west(at)asu(dot)edu <mailto:john(dot)d(dot)west(at)asu(dot)edu>> wrote:
>
> > Sometimes the server process crashes and restarts, usually when I
> > run some large calculations that eat up all available memory.
>
> You might want to reconfigure to avoid that.
>
> > Is there any way to detect this and run a cleanup routine when it
> > happens?
>
> What is it that are you trying to clean up?
>
> -Kevin
>
>
Seems it would be the responsibility of the dependent processes to
recognize pg went away, and clean themselves up (as only they know how
to do).