Re: bgwriter never dies

At 04:01 PM 26/02/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>there is no basis for assuming that a postmaster failure has
>anything to do with problems at the backend level....So my
>opinion is that "kill all the backends when the postmaster
>crashes" is a bad idea

Sounds fine. Then a system that will allow a new PM to start ASAP and serve 
other connections would be great. I assume that means an orderly shutdown & 
restart, but I can't see a way to make the restart work.


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