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Re: Latch implementation that wakes on postmaster death on both win32 and Unix

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-07-08T13:16:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 08.07.2011 16:11, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Incidentally, I like that this removes the amDirectChild argument to
> PostmasterIsAlive() - an added benefit.

amDirectChild==false has actually been dead code for years. But the new 
pipe method would work for a non-direct child too as long as the pipe fd 
is inherited by the non-direct child, should we need that in the future 
again.

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