Re: Something fishy happening on frogmouth

Hi,

On 2013-10-31 11:33:28 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Wait, that sounds horrible. If you kill -9 the server, and then rm -rf
> $PGDATA, the shared memory segment is leaked until next reboot? I find that
> unacceptable. There are many scenarios where you never restart postmaster
> after a crash. For example, if you have an automatic failover setup; you
> fail over to the standby in case of crash, and re-initialize the old master
> with e.g rsync.

Our main shared memory segment works the same way, doesn't it? And it
has for a long time.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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