Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Alternatively, we could do what the comments in pg_ctl have long thought
>> desirable, namely get rid of use of system() in favor of fork()/exec().
>> With that, pg_ctl could do a setsid() inside the child process.
> I like this last approach.
Me too, but it looked like a less-than-trivial bit of work to me
(else I might just have gone and done it). Are you volunteering?
regards, tom lane