Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:07 PM Amit Kapila wrote:
On Monday, September 10, 2012 8:20 PM Amit Kapila wrote:
On Sunday, September 09, 2012 1:37 PM Amit Kapila wrote:
On Friday, September 07, 2012 11:19 PM Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
>>>> Would socketpair(2) be simpler?

>>>>I've not done anything yet about the potential security issues
>>>>associated with untrusted libpq connection strings. I think this
>>>is still at the proof-of-concept stage; in particular, it's probably
>>> time to see if we can make it work on Windows before we worry more
>>>about that.

>> I have started working on this patch to make it work on Windows. The 3
main things to make it work are:

>The patch which contains Windows implementation as well is attached with this mail. It contains changes related to following
>1. waitpid
>2. socketpair
>3. fork-exec

>The following is still left:
> 1. Error handling in all paths

The modified version 2 contains error handling in all paths.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila