Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?
Date: 2007-05-14 13:34:05
Message-ID: 4648654D.2030306@dunslane.net
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:02:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> If all we want to do is add a check that prevents two servers to start on
>>> the same port, we could do that trivially in a win32 specific way (since
>>> we'll never have unix sockets there). Just create an object in the global
>>> namespace named postgresql.interlock.<portnumber> or such a thing.
>>>
>> Does it go away automatically on postmaster crash?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>

Then I think it's worth adding, and I'd argue that as a low risk safety
measure we should allow it to sneak into 8.3. I'm assuming the code
involved will be quite small.

cheers

andrew

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