On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The pg_regress part is ugly. However, pg_regress is doing something > unusual when starting postmaster itself, so the ugly coding to stop it > seems to match. If we wanted to avoid the ugliness here, the right fix > would be to use pg_ctl to start postmaster as well as to stop it.
I wonder if this would change the behavior in cases where we hit ^C during the regression tests. Right now I think that kills the postmaster as well as pg_regress, but if we used pg_ctl, it might not, because pg_regress uses fork()+exec(), but pg_ctl uses system() to launch a shell which is in turn instructed to background the postmaster. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
