Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
> The postmaster's seems to have a section that does a null device open,
> dup2s and a close at the end of pmdaemonize in the 7.4 and 7.5 versions on
> my box:
Yes, and that behavior is exactly why we deprecate -S ... I don't think
that the autovacuum daemon should emulate it.
This is all moot though since we seem to have a consensus that the
autovac daemon will become a postmaster child in 7.5. There is
therefore no reason for it to worry about daemonizing itself.
regards, tom lane