Re: [GENERAL] Shutting down a warm standby database in 8.2beta3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Shutting down a warm standby database in 8.2beta3
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA3594D@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Shutting down a warm standby database in 8.2beta3  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Shutting down a warm standby database in 8.2beta3  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> This would fix the problem on Unixen with setsid, which
> should be pretty much all of them; on any that don't have it,
> the behavior doesn't change.  Still leaves Windows out in the
> cold, but I don't see that we have anything much we can do
> about it there --- Windows users will just have to know to
> kill the child script process instead of the postmaster.

I haven't really been folliowing this thread. What exactly is it you
want to accomplish (maybe there is a different way to fix it on win32)?
Kill a process along with all it's subprocesses?

//Magnus


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