On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> IOW, at least on Linux, you *can* arrange to get a signal when your
> parent process dies.
That's pretty cool.
> Not sure how ugly it'd be to use this call when available and a time
> delay when not, but it's something to think about.
Yeah. It may be worth thinking about whether we want to use the
postmaster-pipe trick someone was proposing. That might be more
portable.
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