> > Why not just use the pid in teh name, and have one segment
> per backend?
>
> Being used only for signals you mean? That might work.
That was my idea. We'll end up using three global namespace objects
(mutex+event+shared memory) instead of one (named pipe), but as we're
not talking thousands and thousands of backends in the normal case, this
shuold not be a problem I think. And if you do thousands and thousands
of backends, you'd better have the memory to support it anyway. I think
you'd hit other limits in the win32 port before you hit this one.
> I dislike fooling around with the contents of postmaster.pid,
> as that will inject platform-specific code into places where
> there is none now.
My thoughts exactly.
//Magnus