Re: plan for running postmaster directly as NT service

Fred Yankowski <fred(at)ontosys(dot)com> writes:
> a) The 'install' and 'remove' code is quite bulky, although simple.
> Is it OK to create a new source file for it, rather than working it
> into some existing file?

I think this'd be a lot easier to sell (and probably to implement)
if the NT-specific stuff is a separate, arm's-length wrapper around
the standard Unix version. Possibly you want something that replaces
src/backend/main/main.c in an NT build.

> b) How can the service log error messages? Is there any syslog type
> facility?

Syslog support exists. There's still a lot of debugging-type code that
scribbles to stderr, but (at least for a first cut) you could just let
that go to the bit bucket.

> c) What is a good way for the supervisory thread to communicate with
> the main thread and shut it down cleanly?

Send it an appropriate signal, same as pg_ctl does.

regards, tom lane