Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
> We're having a growing zoo of daemons that can be regarded as tightly
> integrated server add-on processes (slony, autovac, pgAgent), and it
> would be really nice (say: win32 users are used to it, thus requiring
> it) to have a single point of control.
>
> Maybe a super daemon (in win32 probably pg_ctl), controlling
> postmaster and all those helper processes (accessible through pgsql
> functions, of course) would be the solition. This keeps the kernel
> clean, separates backend shmem from helper processes and enables
> control over all processes.
>
And this will be ready when? I thought we were discussing what could be
done regarding AVitB between now and feature freeze for 8.1 in about 2
weeks. This surely doesn't come into that category.
cheers
andrew