Re: BUG #4961: pg_standby.exe crashes with no args

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:45, Heikki
Linnakangas<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> This would amount to fairly major surgery for pg_standby on Win32. Is
>> that something we'd want to backpatch, or do we want to backpatch just
>> the removal of the signal() calls which would amount to not supporting
>> signals in pg_standby on win32?
>
> I think we should just remove the signals support for win32. The trigger
> file method still works, and the signal method has always been a bit
> iffy (it doesn't work when pg_standby isn't running, for example, which
> happens between processing of each WAL file, because there's no process
> to signal).

Fair enough.

> Is pg_standby killed correctly when postmaster dies?

No idea. I can set up and env to test, but I don't have one ready.
Anybody else have tried this?

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