Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 11/14/16 4:38 AM, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> >> The patch 02_close_listen... closes the listen sockets
> >> explicitly when it's known that postmaster is going to stop all the
> >> children and then die. I have tried to see, if there's a possibility
> >> that it closes the listen sockets but do not actually die, thus
> >> causing a server which doesn't accept any connections and doesn't die.
> >> But I have not found that possibility.
>
> > I can see the point of this, but I'm not sure whether this is always a
> > good idea.
>
> IMO it's not, and closer analysis says that this patch series is an
> attempt to solve something we already fixed, better, in 9.4.
... by the same patch submitter.
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