Re: windows doesn't notice backend death

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: windows doesn't notice backend death
Date: 2009-05-05 15:57:12
Message-ID: 18232.1241539032@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Attached is a proposed patch for the "dead man switch" idea.
> ...
> Barring objections I'll go ahead and apply this to HEAD. I'm wondering
> whether we are sufficiently worried about the Windows task manager issue
> to risk back-patching into 8.3 and 8.2 ... comments?

For lack of response, I assume no one wants to back-patch this.

regards, tom lane

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