Re: Reducing pg_ctl's reaction time

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing pg_ctl's reaction time
Date: 2017-06-28 17:34:57
Message-ID: 20170628173457.yhq7zmfhjdcfvkto@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-06-28 13:31:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not hearing anyone speaking against doing this now, so I'm going
> to go ahead with it.

Cool.

> While looking this over again, I got worried about the fact that pg_ctl
> is #including "miscadmin.h". That's a pretty low-level backend header
> and it wouldn't be surprising at all if somebody tried to put stuff in
> it that wouldn't compile frontend-side. I think we should take the
> opportunity, as long as we're touching this stuff, to split the #defines
> that describe the contents of postmaster.pid into a separate header file.
> Maybe "utils/pidfile.h" ?

Yes, that sounds like a valid concern, and solution.

- Andres

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