Re: pgsql: Use signals for postmaster death on Linux.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <tmunro(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> Use signals for postmaster death on Linux.
>
> One or the other of these patches seems to have caused pmsignal.h
> to fail to compile standalone:
>
> ./src/include/storage/pmsignal.h:79: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'postmaster_possibly_dead'
> ./src/include/storage/pmsignal.h: In function 'PostmasterIsAlive':
> ./src/include/storage/pmsignal.h:84: error: 'postmaster_possibly_dead' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./src/include/storage/pmsignal.h:84: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> ./src/include/storage/pmsignal.h:84: error: for each function it appears in.)
>
> Apparently, this header needs a reference to wherever sig_atomic_t
> is declared.

Thanks, will fix.

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