From: Haribabu Kommi [mailto:kommi.haribabu@gmail.com]
> May be I can give a try by modifying the source code to get the crash.
Thank you, that would be great if you could come up with a good way!
> My point is, With this patch, in case if the postgres crashses
> before reaching main(), does it generate a popup?
>
> If the answer to the above question is yes, then if the popup is
> not attended by the DBA, I feel the postmaster is not able to
> restart all the processes because it is waiting for the crash process
> to close. Am I Correct?
IIRC, the pop up doesn't appear under Windows service. If you start the database server with pg_ctl start on the
commandprompt, the pop up will appear, which I think is not bad.
Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa