Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes: > "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > Tom> We'd likely need a switch to control that. If memory serves, there > Tom> used to be such a switch, but we got rid of the postmaster's > Tom> setsid call and the switch too. We probably should dig in the > Tom> archives and review the reasoning about that.
> The tricky part about doing setsid() is this: you're not allowed to do > it if you're already a process group leader. silent_mode worked by > having postmaster do another fork, exit in the parent, and do setsid() > in the child. Hmph. Can't we just ignore that error? regards, tom lane