Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
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@@ -20,8 +20,17 @@ http://developer.postgresql.org.
 Administration
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-* -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
+* Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
   via an SQL function or SIGTERM
+
+  Lock table corruption following SIGTERM of an individual backend
+  has been reported in 8.0.  A possible cause was fixed in 8.1, but
+  it is unknown whether other problems exist.  This item mostly
+  requires additional testing rather than of writing any new code.
+
+  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00174.php
+  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-04/msg00218.php
+
 * Check for unreferenced table files created by transactions that were
   in-progress when the server terminated abruptly