Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 19:25, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> Therefore I cannot give you specific areas where this will happen.  Of
>> course when systems are low on resources or they are completely
>> depleted (100% CPU) things will stop working
>
> Of course.  As we all know, degrading gracefully under load is an
> unachievable goal.
>
> Anyway, this more or less confirms what I was kind of suspecting all
> along: it's hopeless to try to avoid these exit(128) events, so we
> just need to look for ways to minimize the impact as much as possible
> (i.e. avoid a database PANIC where possible).

So, it's been tested by at leasdt one EDB customer with success.

Do we want to sneak this in before we release 9.0.0?

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