On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > 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?
How about making WaitLatch monitor the file descriptor for the pipe by using select()? Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
