Re: win32 service code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: win32 service code
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BB4F@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to win32 service code  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
List pgsql-hackers-win32
>> 3) Include in postmaster but running on a separate thread
>(not process
>> as (2))
>> Advantages: No extra binary. No extra process. Most integration.
>> Disadvantages: Probably larger impact on postmaster code.
>
>This is the best way to go, I think.  This way we can automatically
>redirect stderr to the event logger and other nice stuff like that.

How can we do this in this case when we can't do it from another
process?

(Note - only "boot messages" are interesting anyway. Once the ereport
code is activated (and after GUC loads), we will report directly to the
eventlog.


>Also this prevents having to deal weird problem like the postmaster
>crashing but postserver.exe still running...yuck.

Yes, that is a definite advantage.

//Magnus

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