From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>, "''pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org' '" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: fork/exec patch: pre-CreateProcess finalization |
Date: | 2004-01-09 00:49:18 |
Message-ID: | 200401090049.i090nIB11418@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > My guess is that this used to proc_exit the postgres backend, but now
> > proc_exits the postmaster, but that is only a guess.
>
> No. This is post-fork (and had better remain so). The change causes
> the sub-postmaster that has just finished handling a cancel request
> to exit with nonzero status, which the postmaster then interprets
> (correctly) as a child process crash.
>
> BTW, how are we going to do cancels in Windows-land? The sub-postmaster
> isn't gonna have access to the postmaster's list of child PIDs and
> cancel keys ...
When you say sub-postmaster, you mean we fork, then process the cancel
request? Seems we might need special handling in there, yea.
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