Re: Postgres service stops when I kill client backend on Windows

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Dmitry Vasilyev
<d(dot)vasilyev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> I’ve started PostgreSQL server on Windows and then I kill client
> backend’s process by taskkill the service was stopped:
>
> postgres=# select pg_backend_pid();
> pg_backend_pid
> ----------------
> 1976
>
> postgres=# \! taskkill /pid 1976 /f
> SUCCESS: The process with PID 1976 has been terminated.
> postgres=# select 1;
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
> !>
>
>
> If I kill backend’s process on Linux then service not failing. So
> what’s the problem? Why PostgreSQL is so strange on Windows?

Hmm. I'd expect that to cause a crash-and-restart cycle, just like a
SIGQUIT would cause a crash-and-restart cycle on Linux. But I would
expect the server to end up running again at the end, not stopped.

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