On 2019-Jul-23, Tom Lane wrote: > Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota....@gmail.com> writes:
> > My investigation convinced me that there is no way for a process > > to detect wheter it is running as a service (except the process > > directly called from system (aka entry function)). Maybe we can try calling pgwin32_is_service()? > But I will say that in my experience, behavioral differences between > Postgres started manually and Postgres started as a daemon are bad. > So I think going out of our way to make the cases behave differently > on Windows is probably not a good plan. We already have such a difference in Windows -- elog.c uses it extensively to use the eventlog to print if a service, console print if not. Given this thread's OP, ISTM failing to do likewise for this case makes debugging problems difficult for no good reason. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
