Re: postmaster.pid

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postmaster.pid
Date: 2004-08-25 07:54:43
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE475B1E@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > I think it's better to call uor named pipe. That way we'll
> find out if
> > it's actually a postmaster of ours or a different process
> alltogether
> > there.
>
> I'm not sure that's a good idea. The function is there to
> emulate the unix kill() which doesn't care what the process
> is. Changing the code as you suggest could cause confusionon
> Windows if someone uses kill() for other purposes.

Why would they link with libpgport if they use it for other purposes?
;-)

But sure, we don't really care if it's a postmaster. Then OpenProcess()
is probably the best way, yes.

//Magnus

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