Re: Ctrl+C from sh can shut down daemonized PostgreSQL cluster

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Alternatively, we could do what the comments in pg_ctl have long thought
>>> desirable, namely get rid of use of system() in favor of fork()/exec().
>>> With that, pg_ctl could do a setsid() inside the child process.
>
>> I like this last approach.
>
> Me too, but it looked like a less-than-trivial bit of work to me
> (else I might just have gone and done it). Are you volunteering?

I don't have time right at the moment, but maybe at some point, if
nobody else gets to it first.

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