On 9 May 2011 11:19, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Can't we use the pipe trick on Windows? The API is different, but we use > pipes on Windows for other things already. When a process is launched, open > a pipe between postmaster and the child process. In the child, spawn a > thread that just calls ReadFile() on the pipe, which blocks. If postmaster > dies, the ReadFile() call will return with an error. Alright. I'm currently working on a proof-of-concept implementation of that. In the meantime, any thoughts on how this should meld with the existing latch implementation? -- Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
