Re: run function on server restart

On 08/24/2012 03:46 PM, John D. West wrote:
> I have various background processes outside of postgres that need to be
> killed and restarted after the server reboots.
>
>       -- John
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov <mailto:Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>> wrote:
>
>     "John D. West" <john.d.west@asu.edu <mailto:john.d.west@asu.edu>> wrote:
>
>      > Sometimes the server process crashes and restarts, usually when I
>      > run some large calculations that eat up all available memory.
>
>     You might want to reconfigure to avoid that.
>
>      > Is there any way to detect this and run a cleanup routine when it
>      > happens?
>
>     What is it that are you trying to clean up?
>
>     -Kevin
>
>
Seems it would be the responsibility of the dependent processes to
recognize pg went away, and clean themselves up (as only they know how
to do).