Horton

Re: assertion at postmaster start

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-26T20:07:59Z
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I wrote:
> I propose the attached.  I'm inclined to think that the risk/benefit
> of back-patching this is not very good, so I just want to stick it in
> HEAD, unless somebody can explain why dead_end children are likely to
> crash in the field.

Pushed at ee3278239.

I'm still curious as to the explanation for a dead_end child exiting
with code 15, but I have no way to pursue the point.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Fix postmaster state machine to handle dead_end child crashes better.

  2. Fix postmaster's handling of a startup-process crash.