Re: [HACKERS] windows doesn't notice backend death

[justin]

Tom Lane wrote: Have M$ really been stupid enough to make an external kill look just like an exit() call? regards, tom lane kind of :-( Everything i have read seems to point the Task Manager calls TerminateProcess() in the kernel32.dll and passes a 1 setting the exitcode to 1.  I have not found anything clearly stating that, yet logic points that is what its doing.  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686714(VS.85).aspx Would it not be easy to set the normal exitcode to something other than 1 to see the difference ExitProcess() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682658(VS.85).aspx  this article maybe helpful.  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686722(VS.85).aspx BTW tested on Windows 2003 SP1  this problem shows up in Postgresql 8.3.3