doc: Add restart on failure to example systemd file
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
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Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2026-03-03T12:18:53Z
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doc: Add restart on failure to example systemd file The documentation previously had a systemd unit file that would not attempt to recover from process failures such as OOM's, segfaults, etc. This commit adds "Restart=on-failure",` which tells systemd to attempt to restart the process after failure. This is the recommended configuration per the systemd documentation: "Setting this to on-failure is the recommended choice for long-running services". Many PostgreSQL users will simply copy/paste what the PostgreSQL documentation recommends and will probably do their own research and change the service file to restart on failure, so might as well set this as the default in the PostgreSQL documentation. Author: Andrew Jackson <andrewjackson947@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKK5BkFfMpAQnv8CLs%3Di%3DrZwurtCV_gmfRb0uZi-V%2Bd6wcryqg%40mail.gmail.com
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