Re: pg_ctl start may return 0 even if the postmaster has been already started on Windows

At Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:45:00 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi  wrote in 
> I have been thinking about this since then. At first, I thought it
> referred to FindFirstChangeNotification() and friends, and inotify on
> Linux. However, I haven't found a way to simplify the specified code
> area using those APIs.

By the way, the need to shift by 2 seconds to tolerate clock skew
suggests that the current launcher-postmaster association mechanism is
somewhat unreliable. Couldn't we add a command line option to
postmaster to explicitly pass a unique identifier (say, pid itself) of
the launcher? If it is not specified, the number should be the PID of
the immediate parent process.

This change avoids the need for the special treatment for Windows.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center