Re: postmaster.pid

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> writes:
> But sure, we don't really care if it's a postmaster. Then OpenProcess()
> is probably the best way, yes.

Au contraire!!  One of the problems with the Unix implementation is that
you *can't* tell for sure if the target process is a postmaster.  See
past discussions about how startup occasionally fails because we get
fooled by the PID mentioned in postmaster.pid now belonging to pg_ctl or
some other Postgres-owned process.

This is a place where the Windows version can actually be better than
the Unix one.  Please fix it and stop imagining that your charter is to
duplicate a particular Unix syscall bug-for-bug.

			regards, tom lane

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