Re: postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression

Kolb, Harald (NSN - DE/Munich) escribió:

> The recovery and restart feature is an excellent solution if the db is
> running in a standalone environment and I understand that this should
> not be weakened. But in a configuration where the db is only one
> resource among others and where you have a central supervisor, it's
> problematic. Then this central instance observes all the resources and
> services and decides what to do in case of problems. It's not up to the
> resource/service to make it's own decision because it's only a piece of
> the cake and doesn't has the complete view to the whole situation.

Surely you can just stop the postmaster while it's on recovery from the
supervisor when you detect this.

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