Re: [PATCHES] postmaster.pid

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, "PostgreSQL-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] postmaster.pid
Date: 2004-08-26 15:23:39
Message-ID: 17906.1093533819@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> ISTM we should not ever queue any event for signal 0.

> That was my original intention, however Magnus thought it best just to
> let it be queued and subsequently ignored by the backend - thinking
> about it 15 minutes later I can't for the life of me think why that's
> any better...

Are there any error cases that we would miss detecting if it didn't go
that far?

regards, tom lane

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