Re: Fw: patch for pg_ctl.c to add windows service start-type

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-20T09:21:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:01, Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because Windows's CreateService has serial start-type:
> SERVICE_AUTO_START
> SERVICE_BOOT_START
> SERVICE_DEMAND_START
> SERVICE_DISABLED
> SERVICE_SYSTEM_START
>
> Although all of them are not useful for pg service.
> I think it is better to use enum.

I don't see us ever using anything other than auto or demand. The
others aren't for "regular services", except for "disabled". And
adding a disabled service makes no sense :-) So I'm with Alvaro, I
think it's a good idea to simplify that.


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