Re: BUG #13643: Should a process dying bring postgresql down, or not?

> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 12:53 AM
> From: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> To: "Amir Rohan" <amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com>
> Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #13643: Should a process dying bring postgresql down, or not?

> > > Well, doing things randomly is unlikely to teach you much ...
> >
> > Well, It can teach you which electric socket will
> > electrocute you when poked with a fork. That's useful data.
>
> If you *learn* which one was it, you weren't doing it randomly but
> systematically trying them all. That's what I wanted to point out.
>

On average, I would have to poke a fork randomly in precisely one socket,
if I payed the bill. But point taken.