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Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

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From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: maumau307@gmail.com, andres@2ndquadrant.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-30T23:27:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> This isn't an area that admits of quick-fix solutions --- everything
> we might do has disadvantages.  Also, the lack of complaints to date
> shows that the problem is not so large as to justify panic responses.
> I'm not really inclined to mess around with a tradeoff that's been
> working pretty well for a dozen years or more.

What about adding a caution to the doc something like:

	 "pg_ctl -m -i stop" may cause a PostgreSQL hang if native laguage support enabled.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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Commits

  1. Consistency check should compare last record replayed, not last record read.

  2. Update minimum recovery point on truncation.