On 2014-03-07 00:03:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > In the bug thread I proposed making atexit_callback check whether getpid() > still matches MyProcPid.
What are you proposing to do in that case? This is only one of the failure cases of forking carelessly, right? I think the only appropriate thing would be to make as much noise as possible in that case, which is probably something like writing a message to stderr, and then abort(). Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
