Jim Wilson <jimw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Rather than getting into the raised eyebrow thing ;-), I\\\'d suggest > checking your "qualifiers". Consider that with Postgres, if killing a > single connection brings the whole server down, you will loose _all_ > uncommitted data. If you did not, then I would call that a bug. I would too. So what's your complaint exactly? That kill -9'ing one backend takes out all your current uncommitted transactions and not just the one? I don't regard that as data loss: uncommitted is uncommitted. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster