Re: [HACKERS] Problem after removal of exec(), help

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-23T04:23:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> No help here, but a request:
> 
> Could we have an option to do the fork()/exec() the old way as well as the
> new sleek fork() only. I want to do some performance testing under gprof and
> want to be able to replace my postgres binary with a shell script to save
> the gmon.out file eg:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> postgres.bin $*
> mv gmon.out gmon.$$
> 
> This won't work unless and exec() is done.

I am confused.  What doesn't work without the exec()?

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