| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Steve Tibbett" <stibbett(at)zim(dot)biz>, "pgsql-hackers-win32" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch |
| Date: | 2003-12-16 19:30:28 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE2A6942@algol.sollentuna.se |
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>>We'd probably need a tool like "pgsignal" or something that
>>would send signals to the backends. Since you can't use the
>>kill commandline tool (that one only supports what would be
>>called kill -9 on unix)
>
>When the user says "net stop postmaster", an entry point in
>postmaster will be called by the Service Control Manager. Then
>postmaster will have to send the signals to the other processes
>asking them to stop and presumably wait for them to stop before
>terminating itself.
Absolutely, but there are other signals to send, no? Or you might want
to send a signal directly to a backend (to cancel for example), as you
can do on Unix.
//Magnus
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