Re: GUC patch for Win32

The other nice thing is that it only creates the file on startup and on
sighup, so it obeys the normal Unix behavior.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The patch basically writes all modified GUC variables to a binary file
> > that can be read in by newly created exec'ed backends.
>
> Where exactly is the interlock to ensure that the new backend will end up
> with the correct settings if someone is changing the values at about
> the time of the fork?
>
> The relcache code has this problem solved, but I'm unconvinced that GUC
> does.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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