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.

Yesterday, while I was working on the Large Object Orphaning problem, I
was having similar problems. I had to stop and restart the postmaster
before I could do anything afterwards.

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