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

> >
> > 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.

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