Re: bgworker crashed or not?

On 2014-04-16 12:04:26 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> And... so what's the problem?  You seemed to be saying that the
> background worker would need to a more developed error-handling
> environment in order to do proper logging, but here you're saying
> (rightly, I believe) that it doesn't.  Even if it did, though, I think
> the right solution is to install one, not make it the postmaster's job
> to try to read the tea leaves in the worker's exit code.

Well, currently it will log the message that has been thrown, that might
lack context. LogChildExit() already has code to print activity of the
bgworker after it crashed.

Note that a FATAL error will always use a exit(1) - so we better not
make that a special case in the code :/.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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