Re: Dangling Client Backend Process

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> I don't think that proc_exit(1) is the right way to exit here.  It's
>> not very friendly to exit without at least attempting to give the
>> client a clue about what has gone wrong.  I suggest something like
>> this:
>>
>>             ereport(FATAL,
>>                     (errcode(ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN),
>>              errmsg("terminating connection due to postmaster shutdown")));
>
> Agreed, but I don't think "shutdown" is the right word to use here --
> that makes it sound like it was orderly.  Perhaps "crash"?

Well, that's a little speculative.  "due to unexpected postmaster exit"?

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