| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Add test for postmaster crash restarts. |
| Date: | 2017-09-30 22:21:33 |
| Message-ID: | 56b65da3-f7cc-494c-7952-ba5f6c804d7e@2ndQuadrant.com |
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[re-adding commiters which I inadvertently left off]
On 09/30/2017 06:10 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>
>> I was just looking at this. Why aren't we using "pg_ctl kill" to
>> terminate the backend? That's supposed to be portable.
> Because pg_ctl can't do that for any process but postmaster, no? The
> test is supposed to find issues with backend death (and has
> defficiencies in error reporting already, and would have caught a bug
> I'd introduced previously).
>
No, I don't think so. That's not what the docs say. That's why you give
it a pid argument" "pg_ctl kill signal_name process_id"
cheers
andrew
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