Re: How does an application recognize the death of the

[Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@xxxxxxxx>]

Geoffrey wrote:
> How do folks handle the death of the postmaster in their applications? 
> Assuming the postmaster dies after an application has connected to the 
> database, but before it makes a request.  What should I look for? 
> Currently our application that's in development does not handle the 
> situation well.  What we want to do is gracefully (as possible) 
> shutdown the application.
you should provide a bit more information regarding your application... 
is it C code, PHP, RUBY, etc.  Each of these would have different 
solutions.  As already mentioned, some already have handling code that 
throws errors.  Others may require a bit more work on your part to 
recognize and handle the situation.