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All child processes except the syslogger are killed on a restart. The archiver might be already running though, if it was started during recovery. The split in the comments between "other special children" and the first group of "background tasks" seemed really arbitrary, so I just merged them all into one group. Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8f2118b9-79e3-4af7-b2c9-bd5818193ca4@iki.fi
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.
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