Re: pgkill for windows - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: pgkill for windows
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34B9B1@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to pgkill for windows  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
List pgsql-patches
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Attached are 2 files needed to create a pgkill facility for
> Windows,
> > and a complementary patch for src/bin/Makefile
>
> If it's only for the regression tests, then it should go into
> that directory.

It is not. It is a tool required to do any "controlled backend
termination" on win32. The regression tests is just one user of it.
Regression tests is just one user of it.

(You can shutdown the postmaster using Ctrl-C or using the Service
Control Manager, but pgkill is required for individual backend
signalling).


//Magnus

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