Simon Riggs wrote: > A few questions may help to speed up my work > > I need to send a signal from a backend to the archiver process. > > 1. What signal should I use?
You can use any unused signal. I would suggest looking at what the stats processes uses, and use something else like SIGUSR1. > 2. How do I give the processid of the archiver to the backend? The > archiver may restart at any time, so its pid could change after a > backend is forked. I was thinking of having it be in shared memory. I am going to work on that part, but I need to finish the relocatable install stuff for Win32 first. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend