Re: windows doesn't notice backend death

From: justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: windows doesn't notice backend death
Date: 2009-05-03 19:51:04
Message-ID: 49FDF5A8.4090505@emproshunts.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Have M$ really been stupid
enough to make an external kill look just like an exit() call?

regards, tom lane

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<font face="Arial">kind of :-(<br>
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Everything i have read seems to point the Task Manager calls
TerminateProcess() in the kernel32.dll and passes a 1 setting the
exitcode to 1.&nbsp; I have not found anything clearly stating that, yet
logic points that is what its doing.&nbsp; <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686714(VS.85).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686714(VS.85).aspx</a><br>
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Would it not be easy to set the normal exitcode to something other than
1 to see the difference <br>
ExitProcess()<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682658(VS.85).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682658(VS.85).aspx</a><br>
<br>
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&nbsp;this article maybe helpful.&nbsp; <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686722(VS.85).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686722(VS.85).aspx</a><br>
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BTW tested on Windows 2003 SP1&nbsp; this problem shows up in Postgresql
8.3.3<br>
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