Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
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Msg-id 3AA44D48.50E45618@wgcr.org
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In response to How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> The tricky part of this is not to give up the ability to restart when
> there *has* been a crash.

But kill -9 effectively _is_ an admin-initiated crash.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11


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