Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Another problem is that postmaster children that do
>> PGSharedMemoryDetach will still have valid inherited handles for
>> the shmem segment --- does that factor into the behavior? It looks
>> to me like the CloseHandle ought to be in PGSharedMemoryDetach.
> Not as long as the processes die. If they die, their handles go with
> them, and once the reference count goes to zero, the object goes away.
But the syslogger process (and maybe others) is *not* supposed to die.
regards, tom lane
