Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I am ready to work with anyone to make fork/exec happen. It requires we
> >
> >find out what globals are being set by the postmaster, and have the
> >child run those same routines. I can show you examples of what I have
> >done and walk you through areas that need work. If you look at the
> >EXEC_BACKEND defines in CVS, you can see what I have done so far. We
> >need to have EXEC_BACKEND working on Unix first, then we can add the
> >CreateProcess call on Win32, so all this can be done on Unix first.
> >
> >
>
> How is EXEC_BACKEND going to be enabled? A configure option? A global
> define?
We will use it for testing to make sure Unix can work with exec(), then
we add CreateProcess and make EXEC_BACKEND defined for that platform.
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