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Re: pg_ctl kill support for KILL signal was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add test for postmaster crash restarts.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-10-01T22:14:47Z
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On 2017-10-01 18:01:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2017-10-01 17:47:52 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> So we can leave it out of there. OTOH I'm not a huge fan of security by
> >> obscurity. I guess this wouldn't be too bad a case.
> 
> > I'd personally include it, given that we already allow and document
> > ABRT. There's no meaningful difference between the two.
> 
> True.

I'll push it that way then. Adapting a help text later is fairly
harmless.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Allow pg_ctl kill to send SIGKILL.

  2. Try to make crash restart test work on windows.

  3. Make new crash restart test a bit more robust.

  4. Add test for postmaster crash restarts.