Scott Marlowe escribió: > scenario 1: There's a postmaster, it owns all the child processes. > It gets killed. The Postmaster gets restarted. Since there isn't one > running, it comes up. Actually there's an additional step required at this point. There isn't a postmaster running, but a new one refuses to start, because the shmem segment is in use. In order for the second postmaster to start, the sysadmin must remove the PID file by hand. > starts new child processes. Meanwhile, the old child processes that > don't belong to it are busy writing to the data store. Instant > corruption. In this scenario, it is both a kernel fault and sysadmin stupidity. The corruption that ensues is 100% deserved. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
