Re: [HACKERS] Re: Odd behavior in regression test?

On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > 
> > > Is it possible that the recent change from fork/exec to just fork leaves
> > > the postmaster more exposed? I can imagine that it might, but don't have
> > > any direct experience with it so am just guessing. Any other ideas? Do
> > > people see this on other platforms? This is the first time I can recall
> > > seeing the postmaster go away on a crash of a backend (but of course my
> > > memory isn't what it should be :)
> > 
> > My guess is that the postmaster can no longer restart its backends after
> > one of them aborts.  Something I need to check into perhaps.
> > 
> 
> I just tried killing a running backend, and could not get the postmaster
> to disappear.

Try generating a segmentation fault in a loadable module... works
everytime here.

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