Andreas Pflug wrote:
We agreed long ago that theI understand that, so what's the suggested way to store data common for all backends?
postmaster should never depend on the correctness of any shared memory
data structure; but this patch would make it do so.
Answering my own question, the distribution of the current logfile name could be done trough a file handle. So the only thing remaining in shared mem would be the "reopen logfile" flag, which seems nonproblematic. In case of garbled sharedmem, a backend would reopen the logfile, which does no harm at all, or continue writing the outdated logfile which would be annoying but not harmful either.
Acceptable?
Regards, Andreas
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