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

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:00, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> We're not so worried about this case that we'd want to backport the
>>> deadman switch into 8.3 or 8.2 to have a fix there, are we?
>
>> I think we should consider backporting the deadman switch to 8.3 and 8.2.
>
> [ raised eyebrow... ]  Weren't you the one just lecturing me about
> minimizing changes in back branches?
>
> That was a fairly large patch, and I *don't* want to back-port it.
> The thrust of my question was more along the lines of whether we should
> look for a different solution to the current problem, so that we would
> have something that could be back-ported into 8.2 and 8.3.  Personally
> I'm satisfied with only fixing it in 8.4 and up, but then again I don't
> use Windows.

Once we've shown that it works, I think we should look at doing
something for <= 8.3 as well.

How about something along the line of y previous patch (with the
event) for 8.2 and 8.3, and then this simplified one for 8.4+?

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