Re: postmaster.exe vs postgres.exe (was: CVS HEAD busted on Windows?)

From: "Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito(at)guitar(dot)ocn(dot)ne(dot)jp>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postmaster.exe vs postgres.exe (was: CVS HEAD busted on Windows?)
Date: 2006-06-22 13:28:00
Message-ID: 010201c695ff$af136200$01324d80@hiroshi5jz7dqj
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> Dave Page wrote:

> > Won't we still need to know if we are called as postmaster or
> > postgres?
>
> Unless the 'postmaster' instance starts all it's sub processes with an
> additional option to tell them they're children (I haven't looked at the
> code yet so I dunno if this is how it's done).
>
> For those that are unaware, because Windows doesn't support symlinks, we
> currently ship two copies of the binary. We could save 3.2MB
> (uncompressed, 8.1.4) if we could lose one of them.

I look at that structure was successful by huge backend.dll at 8.2.
In spite of not arranging it yet, it looks great. However, Several K-Bytes are
still used vainly. But, I am not investigating which the is still good.

Regards,
Hiroshi Saito

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