Re: Win32 hard crash problem

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
>>>> On 5-Sep-06, at 6:05 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>>> Yes they are using a connection pool. A java based one.
>>>> Since java has it's own protocol implementation, this is totally  
>>>> unrelated to any libpq error messages.
>>> Another important point that we've not been given information on:
>>> when pgAdmin/libpq starts failing like this, exactly what is happening
>>> with the connection pool?  Is it still able to issue queries, and
>>> if not what happens exactly?
>> No, when this happens everything stops. The only thing they get back is 
>> that message until they reboot the server. The web app (via 
>> java/connection pool), pgAdmin both give the same error.
> 
> Actually Dave Cramer told me that if the postmaster was stopped and then
> restarted, it would start answering fine again.  Which would make a lot
> of sense.

I already said that ;). The problem IS NOT that we can't restart the 
system and get postgresql back. It is that it happens at all.

Joshua D. Drake


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