Re: Immediate shutdown and system(3)

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> 1. Implement a custom version of system(3) using fork+exec that let's us 
> trap SIGQUIT and send e.g SIGTERM or SIGINT to the child instead. It 
> might be a bit tricky to get this right in a portable way; Windows would 
> certainly need a completely separate implementation.

I think the custom system() approach is the most ideal plan for us because
it could open the door for faster recovery; If there were an asynchronous
version of system(), startup process could parallelly execute both
restoring archived wal files and redoing operations in them.

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center