Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Dann Corbit wrote:
> > > It will be at least another copy of the postmaster (dot exe).
> > 
> > Yea, I just liked the idea of the postmaster binary somehow reporting
> > the postmaster status.  Seems it is in a better position to 
> > do that than
> > a shell script.
> 
> Architectural notion:
> The Postmaster is about 100x bigger than it needs to be.
> 
> The Postmaster needs to set up shared memory and launch servers.  It
> does not need to know anything about SQL grammar or any of that
> rigamarole.
> 
> It could be a 15K executable.
> 
> Why not have an itty-bitty Postmaster that does nothing but a spawn or a
> create process to create threaded Postgres instances?

Can't.  postmaster/postgres are symlinks to the same file, and we fork()
from postmaster to create backends.  All the code has to be in the
postmaster so the fork works.

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