Re: win32 service proposal

> Spoke about this off-list with Magnus; he's strongly for
> stand-alone; I'm fence-sitting. We see that clearly there are
> some niceties to having this in the postmaster (one less exe
> to build/configure; same install set for win/*nix; etc), but
> the downsides include minor impact on the core code and the
> fact that a user will see two postmaster processes running...
> the latter I find particularly obnoxious (using a thread to
> handle the service or PostmasterMain would alleviate this,
> but would require more work to be able to catch postmaster
> shutdowns, meaning impact to core code, and unexpected
> terminations would leave the user at the mercy of the Service
> Manager).

Hmm, did I come across as stringly for stand-alone? That was not my
intention :-)

I'm definitly leaning in that direction, but I wouldn't say I'm strongly
for it.

Apart from that, those are the points I see. It's just a matter of
weighting them.

//Magnus