Re: Close listening socokets before forking

> Currently when pgpool main process forks sub processes (child process
> - user session process, pcp_main process, health check process,
> streaming replication check process and life check process), they
> inherits pgpool and pcp listening sockets. However some of processes
> do not need those sockets:
>
> - child process - pcp sockets are unnecessary
> - pcp main process - pgpool sockets are unnecessary
> - health check, streaming replication check and life check process -
> pgpool and pcp sockets are unnecessary
>
> It could be potential problem when those process go down. Since they
> may keep the listening sockets for a while, which prevents next pgpool
> starting up from binding those ports.
>
> Attached patch closes those unnecessary sockets after forking. For
> this purpose new function close_listening_sockets() is introduced.

Pushed down to v4.4 (v4.3 was hard to port the patch).

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS K.K.
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