Re: Unintended restart after recovery error

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
> While looking at postmaster.c:reaper(), one problematic case occurred to me.
>
>
> 1. Startup process signals PMSIGNAL_RECOVERY_STARTED.
>
> 2. Checkpointer process is forked and immediately dies.
>
> 3. reaper() catches this failure, calls HandleChildCrash() and thus sets
> FatalError to true.
>
> 4. Startup process exits with non-zero status code too - either due to SIGQUIT
> received from HandleChildCrash or due to some other failure of the startup
> process itself. However, FatalError is already set, because of the previous
> crash of the checkpointer. Thus reaper() does not set RecoveryError.
>
> 5. As RecoverError failed to be set to true, postmaster will try to restart
> the cluster, although it apparently should not.

Why shouldn't postmaster restart the cluster in that case?

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao