Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Perform only one ReadControlFile() during startup.

On 2017-09-18 12:16:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > One thing that I've noticed for a while, but that I was reminded of
> > again here. We very frequently allow psql to reconnect in case of crash,
> > just for postmaster to notice a child has gone and kill that session. I
> > don't recall that frequently happening, but these days it happens nearly
> > every time.
> 
> I don't understand what you're talking about here.

I often see a backend crash, psql reacting to that crash by
reconnecting, successfully establish a new connection, just to be kicked
off by postmaster that does the crash restart cycle.  I've not yet
figured out when exactly this happens and when not.

- Andres