Re: patch for parallel pg_dump

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm wondering if we really need this much complexity around shutting
>> down workers.  I'm not sure I understand why we need both a "hard" and
>> a "soft" method of shutting them down.  At least on non-Windows
>> systems, it seems like it would be entirely sufficient to just send a
>> SIGTERM when you want them to die.  They don't even need to catch it;
>> they can just die.
>
> At least on my Linux test system, even if all pg_dump processes are
> gone, the server happily continues sending data. When I strace an
> individual backend process, I see a lot of Broken pipe writes, but
> that doesn't stop it from just writing out the whole table to a closed
> file descriptor. This is a 9.0-latest server.

Wow, yuck.  At least now I understand why you're doing it like that.

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