"Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: > Thanks Andrew, Alvaro, and Chander. You've given me some thoughts to > toss around. Of course, any of these is going to be somewhat more > complex than using [ pg_ctl -w ]
Yeah. I wonder if we shouldn't expend a bit more effort to make that way bulletproof. As I mentioned the other day, if there were a way for pg_ctl to pass down its parent's PID then we could have the postmaster exclude that as a false match, and then using pg_ctl would be just as safe as invoking the postmaster directly. The two ways I can see to do that are to add a command line switch to the postmaster, or to pass the PID as an environment variable, say "PG_GRANDPARENT_PID". The latter is a bit uglier but it would require touching much less code (and documentation). Thoughts? 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