Re: [BUGS] BUG #4961: pg_standby.exe crashes with no args

Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Is pg_standby killed correctly when postmaster dies?
> 
> No. In my test (v8.3.7 on Win), an immediate shutdown was able to
> kill postmaster, but not pg_standby and the startup process.

Hmm. We should do something about that.. Magnus?

> Though we should change those to handle the shutdown signals
> correctly, this change is not imperative need. At first, we should
> just get rid of the signal support from pg_standby on Win, in order
> to avoid the pg_standby crash. The attached is the patch to do so.
> If this patch is OK, the backport is required for 8.3.x.

Ok, committed to HEAD, 8.4 and 8.3.

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