>>We'd probably need a tool like "pgsignal" or something that
>>would send signals to the backends. Since you can't use the
>>kill commandline tool (that one only supports what would be
>>called kill -9 on unix)
>
>When the user says "net stop postmaster", an entry point in
>postmaster will be called by the Service Control Manager. Then
>postmaster will have to send the signals to the other processes
>asking them to stop and presumably wait for them to stop before
>terminating itself.
Absolutely, but there are other signals to send, no? Or you might want
to send a signal directly to a backend (to cancel for example), as you
can do on Unix.
//Magnus
