On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> >> The attached patch adds support for the Windows 7 beta which we've had >> a few reports of incompatibility with. When we startup using pg_ctl on >> Windows, we create a job object (a logical grouping of processes on >> Windows) to which we apply various security options. One of these >> (JOB_OBJECT_UILIMIT_HANDLES) is used to prevent our processes seeing >> handles belonging to processes outside of our job, however, when we >> run under the service control manager, this causes the postmaster to >> exit immeditately for no apparent reason. >> >> I'm not entirely sure what has change in the SCM to cause this yet >> (Windows 7 documentation is somewhat thin on the ground at the >> moment), but the patch avoids theporblem by only setting >> JOB_OBJECT_UILIMIT_HANDLES on earlier OSs. >> >> Tested on CVS head, but should probably be backpatched to 8.3 to avoid >> more bug reports. > > No objections here, but seems we should revisit this after Windows 7 is > released, and revert if they've fixed the underlying problem during the beta > period.
Agreed. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
