Kill dead-end children when there's nothing else left

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: bb861414fea31073f27aaab75a0ceaf3638d7985
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2024-11-14T14:12:04Z
Releases: 18.0
Kill dead-end children when there's nothing else left

Previously, the postmaster would never try to kill dead-end child
processes, even if there were no other processes left. A dead-end
backend will eventually exit, when authentication_timeout expires, but
if a dead-end backend is the only thing that's preventing the server
from shutting down, it seems better to kill it immediately. It's
particularly important, if there was a bug in the early startup code
that prevented a dead-end child from timing out and exiting normally.

Includes a test for that case where a dead-end backend previously
prevented the server from shutting down.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a102f15f-eac4-4ff2-af02-f9ff209ec66f@iki.fi

Files

Discussion