Dave Page wrote:
>>Won't we still need to know if we are called as postmaster or
>>postgres?
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>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).
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>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.
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Windows children could be handled, I think, but here is also standalone
postgres.
3.2 Mb is not insignificant, but I think we can live with it.
cheers
andrew