Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: > 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. It would be good to understand what the problem actually is and what are the risks of running without this flag. I assume we put it in there for a reason. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers