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promoted to FATAL) end in exit(1) not exit(0). Then change the postmaster to allow exit(1) without a system-wide panic, but not for the startup subprocess or the bgwriter. There were a couple of places that were using exit(1) to deliberately force a system-wide panic; adjust these to be exit(2) instead. This fixes the problem noted back in July that if the startup process exits with elog(ERROR), the postmaster would think everything is hunky-dory and proceed to start up. Alternative solutions such as trying to run the entire startup process as a critical section seem less clean, primarily because of the fact that a fair amount of startup code is shared by all postmaster children in the EXEC_BACKEND case. We'd need an ugly special case somewhere near the head of main.c to make it work if it's the child process's responsibility to determine what happens; and what's the point when the postmaster already treats different children differently?
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more common listed below: C++ - http://thaiopensource.org/development/libpqxx/ JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/ PHP - http://www.php.net Python - http://www.initd.org/ Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/ Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing parties. PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available, a short but not complete list is below: PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution PL/Java - http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the file HISTORY. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.