Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm willing to buy the above, but nobody has explained to my
> satisfaction why it's remotely sane to go into an infinite retry loop
> on an unrecoverable error.
That's a different question altogether ;-). I assume you're not
satisfied by the change Heikki committed a couple hours ago?
It will at least try to do something to recover.
regards, tom lane