Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > See the CAVEATS here: > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/fork.2.html
> Apparently fork() without exec() isn't all that well supported. This doesn't say fork() doesn't work. It says that Apple's framework libraries aren't meant to work in a forked subprocess --- but we don't use those. > Noticed while perusing > http://lwn.net/Articles/518306/ I'm afraid Brian was just looking for an excuse to dump on Apple. We have a lot of years of Postgres experience showing that fork() works fine on OS X. 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
