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Bug#184495: libc6.postinst needs to restart postgres



At Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:43:37 -0500,
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 07:53 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> >
> > Is it ok to restart "/etc/init.d/postgresql" in postgresql package?
> 
> That will terminate all connections. Some (many?) programs (e.g., 
> msyslog, which could even be running on another machine) won't 
> automatically re-establish the connection.
> 
> it will also cause a transaction abort, which could be undesirable.
> 
> So, I'd be wary of doing a PosgreSQL restart, just like gdm/kdm/xdm 
> ones.

Ouch, so we can't restart them.  We can't fix this bug currently.
So we warn this issue with preinst script for a moment.
Adam, I downgrade this bug into important.

Regards,
-- gotom



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