Re: Removing service-related code in pg_ctl for Cygwin

On 01/14/2016 12:38 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Beginning a new thread seems more adapted regarding $subject but
> that's mentioned here as well:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQXghm_SdB5iniupz1atzMxk=95gv9A8ocdo83SXCNjeg@mail.gmail.com
>
> It happens based on some investigation from Andrew that cygwin does
> not need to use the service-related code, aka register/unregister
> options or similar that are proper to WIN32 and rely instead on
> cygrunsrv with a SYSV-like init file to manage the service. Based on
> my tests with cygwin, I am able to see as well that a server started
> within a cygwin session is able to persist even after it is closed,
> which is kind of nice and I think that it is a additional reason to
> not use the service-related code paths. Hence what about the following
> patch, that makes cygwin behave like any *nix OS when using pg_ctl?
> This simplifies a bit the code.
>
> Marco, as I think you do some packaging for Postgres in Cygwin, and
> others, does that sound acceptable?
>

I think we can be a bit more adventurous and remove all the
Cygwin-specific code. See attached patch, which builds fine on buildfarm
cockatiel.

cheers

andrew