Commit 22dbd540 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Add description for backend termination:

<   cleaned up properly.  A new signal is needed for safe termination.
>   cleaned up properly.  A new signal is needed for safe termination
>   because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
>   have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
parent bebe7c56
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PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
Last updated: Sat Jun 4 20:45:17 EDT 2005
Last updated: Sat Jun 4 23:39:40 EDT 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
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Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination.
cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination
because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
* Un-comment all variables in postgresql.conf
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
Last updated: Sat Jun 4 20:45:17 EDT 2005
Last updated: Sat Jun 4 23:39:40 EDT 2005
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
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</li><li>Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
<p> Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination.
cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination
because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
</p>
</li><li>Un-comment all variables in postgresql.conf
<p> By not showing commented-out variables, we discourage people from
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