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    Never crash-and-restart for bgworkers without shared memory access. · e2ce9aa2
    Robert Haas authored
    The motivation for a crash and restart cycle when a backend dies is
    that it might have corrupted shared memory on the way down; and we
    can't recover reliably except by reinitializing everything.  But that
    doesn't apply to processes that don't touch shared memory.  Currently,
    there's nothing to prevent a background worker that doesn't request
    shared memory access from touching shared memory anyway, but that's a
    separate bug.
    
    Previous to this commit, the coding in postmaster.c was inconsistent:
    an exit status other than 0 or 1 didn't provoke a crash-and-restart,
    but failure to release the postmaster child slot did.  This change
    makes those cases consistent.
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