On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 22:15, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need to send a signal from a backend to the archiver process. > > > 1. What signal should I use? > > SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 would be the safest choices. > > > 2. How do I give the processid of the archiver to the backend? The > > archiver may restart at any time, so its pid could change after a > > backend is forked. > > My answer would be "don't". Send a signal to the postmaster and > let it signal the current archiver child. Use the existing > SendPostmasterSignal() code for the first part of this. >
Brilliant - very clean. Many thanks. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
