Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I have verified that it does indeed work. Underneath the hood it uses > the native call LockFileEx() see win32io.c in Perl source. I suggest we > should switch from this flaky use of Global namespace to having the > postmaster acquire an explicit lock on a file in the datadir.
Does it work for all backends to grab a lock, so that if they continue to live after postmaster has died, then the new postmaster cannot start? I guess the postmaster could try-acquire an exclusive lock and all other processes would acquire a shared lock. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
