On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Frankly I'd prefer to get rid of PostmasterIsAlive, not extend its use.
> It sucks because you don't get a signal on parent death. With the
> arrival of the latch code, having to check for PostmasterIsAlive
> frequently is the only reason for an idle background process to consume
> CPU at all.
What we really need is SIGPARENT. I wonder if the Linux folks would
consider adding such a thing. Might be useful to others as well.
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