> Dave Page wrote:
> > Won't we still need to know if we are called as postmaster or
> > postgres?
>
> Unless the 'postmaster' instance starts all it's sub processes with an
> additional option to tell them they're children (I haven't looked at the
> code yet so I dunno if this is how it's done).
>
> For those that are unaware, because Windows doesn't support symlinks, we
> currently ship two copies of the binary. We could save 3.2MB
> (uncompressed, 8.1.4) if we could lose one of them.
I look at that structure was successful by huge backend.dll at 8.2.
In spite of not arranging it yet, it looks great. However, Several K-Bytes are
still used vainly. But, I am not investigating which the is still good.
Regards,
Hiroshi Saito