Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I added that recently to try to detect postmaster children
>> that exit without cleaning up properly. I seem to have missed this
>> error case :-(. Actually it looks like fork failure for regular
>> backends gets it wrong too :-( :-( --- would you please also add one
>> in the pid<0 path in BackendStartup? I think this logic is in 8.4
>> too, in which case it'll need to be back-patched.
> And this one too.
Almost right --- we only want to release for non-dead_end children.
I fixed that part.
regards, tom lane