Re: Weaker shmem interlock w/o postmaster.pid

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:10:45PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > > I'm thinking to preserve postmaster.pid at immediate shutdown in all released
> > > versions, but I'm less sure about back-patching a change to make
> > > PGSharedMemoryCreate() pickier.  On the one hand, allowing startup to proceed
> > > with backends still active in the same data directory is a corruption hazard.
> > > On the other hand, it could break weird shutdown/restart patterns that permit
> > > trivial lifespan overlap between backends of different postmasters.  Opinions?
> > 
> > I'm more sanguine about the second change than the first.  Leaving
> > postmaster.pid around seems like a clear user-visible behavior change
> > that could break user scripts or have other consequences that we don't
> > foresee; thus, I would vote against back-patching it.  Indeed, I'm not
> > sure it's a good idea to do that even in master.  On the other hand,
> > tightening the checks in PGSharedMemoryCreate() seems very much worth
> > doing, and I think it might also be safe enough to back-patch.
> 
> Were these changes every applied?  I don't see them.

No, I haven't gotten around to writing them.

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Noah Misch
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