On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 10:22:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > kill() adds nothing when dealing with a pg_ctl child. waitpid() is enough.
>
> The kill() coding works on Windows (I believe); waitpid() not so much.
Windows has the concept under a different name. See postmaster.c.