Fred Yankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) The 'install' and 'remove' code is quite bulky, although simple. > Is it OK to create a new source file for it, rather than working it > into some existing file? I think this'd be a lot easier to sell (and probably to implement) if the NT-specific stuff is a separate, arm's-length wrapper around the standard Unix version. Possibly you want something that replaces src/backend/main/main.c in an NT build. > b) How can the service log error messages? Is there any syslog type > facility? Syslog support exists. There's still a lot of debugging-type code that scribbles to stderr, but (at least for a first cut) you could just let that go to the bit bucket. > c) What is a good way for the supervisory thread to communicate with > the main thread and shut it down cleanly? Send it an appropriate signal, same as pg_ctl does. regards, tom lane