Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering if we are not correctly handling the case where we get
> a shutdown request while we are still in the PM_STARTUP state.  It
> looks like we might go ahead and switch to PM_RECOVERY and then
> PM_RECOVERY_CONSISTENT without noticing the shutdown.  There is some
> logic to handle the shutdown when the startup process exits, but if
> the startup process never exits it looks like we might get stuck.

Right. I reported this problem and submitted the patch before.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-04/msg00592.php

Stefan,
Could you check whether the patch fixes the problem you encountered?

Regards,

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