Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> My recent patch will prevent server startup, so if you do a fast restart
> to bounce the server and change parameters you'll have to keep the
> server down while the archiver completes (or you kill it).
BTW, I was not planning on having it do that. The archiver subprocess
should fail to start (and the PM keep trying to start it). Not take
down the entire database.
regards, tom lane