Andres Freund wrote: > Another approach, that's simpler to implement, is to simply have a > second selfpipe, just for WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH.
Would it work to use this second pipe, to which each child writes a byte that postmaster never reads, and then rely on SIGPIPE when postmaster dies? Then we never need to do a syscall. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
