<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Error Handling</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.2.13 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Server Configuration" HREF="runtime-config.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Version and Platform Compatibility" HREF="runtime-config-compatible.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Preset Options" HREF="runtime-config-preset.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2015-06-13T20:07:41"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.2.13 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Version and Platform Compatibility" HREF="runtime-config-compatible.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="runtime-config.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 18. Server Configuration</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Preset Options" HREF="runtime-config-preset.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="RUNTIME-CONFIG-ERROR-HANDLING" >18.14. Error Handling</A ></H1 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><A NAME="GUC-EXIT-ON-ERROR" ></A ><TT CLASS="VARNAME" >exit_on_error</TT > (<TT CLASS="TYPE" >boolean</TT >)</DT ><DD ><P > If true, any error will terminate the current session. By default, this is set to false, so that only FATAL errors will terminate the session. </P ></DD ><DT ><A NAME="GUC-RESTART-AFTER-CRASH" ></A ><TT CLASS="VARNAME" >restart_after_crash</TT > (<TT CLASS="TYPE" >boolean</TT >)</DT ><DD ><P > When set to true, which is the default, <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > will automatically reinitialize after a backend crash. Leaving this value set to true is normally the best way to maximize the availability of the database. However, in some circumstances, such as when <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > is being invoked by clusterware, it may be useful to disable the restart so that the clusterware can gain control and take any actions it deems appropriate. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="runtime-config-compatible.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="runtime-config-preset.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Version and Platform Compatibility</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="runtime-config.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Preset Options</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >