Re: [GENERAL] Shutting down a warm standby database in 8.2beta3

Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Stephen Harris" <lists@spuddy.org>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-11-20T16:23:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
> This would fix the problem on Unixen with setsid, which 
> should be pretty much all of them; on any that don't have it, 
> the behavior doesn't change.  Still leaves Windows out in the 
> cold, but I don't see that we have anything much we can do 
> about it there --- Windows users will just have to know to 
> kill the child script process instead of the postmaster.

I haven't really been folliowing this thread. What exactly is it you
want to accomplish (maybe there is a different way to fix it on win32)?
Kill a process along with all it's subprocesses?

//Magnus