Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session
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Msg-id 26313.1282848998@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session  (Cristian Bittel <cbittel@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Given the existence of the deadman switch mechanism (which I hadn't
>> remembered when this thread started), I'm coming around to the idea that
>> we could just treat exit(128) as nonfatal on Windows. �If for some
>> reason the child hadn't died instantly at startup, the deadman switch
>> would distinguish that from the case described here.

> So do you want to code this up?

Who, me?  I don't do Windows --- I'd have no way to test it.
        regards, tom lane


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