Re: [PORTS] NT service design choices

Fred Yankowski <fred(at)ontosys(dot)com> writes:
> But the 'cgyrunsrv' application has recently become available,
> providing a general wrapper capability for running any Cygwin process
> as as service. I'm strongly considering using this wrapper to run
> PostgreSQL rather than continuing with the approach of integrating the
> service-management code right into postgres itself.

Sounds good to me.

> - Need to implement features in cygrunsrv that are specific
> to only the PostgreSQL case so far. (dependency on other
> services, specific signals to shutdown the application,
> logging all output to a file, clean shutdown in event of NT
> shutdown).

The last three would seem to be generally useful additions to cygrunsrv
anyway. I'm not sure what you mean by "dependency on other services".

regards, tom lane