Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I don't really understand why start_postmaster() bothers to wrap postmaster
> start through cmd.exe, particularly when it prevents us from getting
> postmaster's pid. Also the caveats around cmd.exe and sharing mode.
I think the basic idea is to avoid having to write our own code to do
the I/O redirections --- that's certainly why we use a shell on the
Unix side. But it might well be that biting the bullet and handling
redirection ourselves would be easier than coping with all these
other problems.
regards, tom lane
