postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression

Hi,

in case of a serious failure of a backend or an auxiliary process the postmaster performs a crash recovery and restarts the db automatically.
Is there a possibility to deactivate the restart and to force the postmaster to simply exit at the end ?
The background is that we will have a watchdog process which will in this case perform a fast switchover to the standby side (in case of syncronous replication) or will restart the db by its own and in addition will perform some specific actions.

Regards,

Harald Kolb.

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