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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:45:39 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Fred Yankowski <fred AT ontosys DOT com>
Cc: Riaan Labuschagne <Riaan AT radioretail DOT co DOT za>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygrunsrv-0.94-1
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	Riaan Labuschagne <Riaan AT radioretail DOT co DOT za>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

Fred,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:19:49AM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote:
> This problem happens because Cygwin sends SIGHUP to each process
> during NT shutdown.  The postmaster process reacts to SIGHUP by
> starting to reload its configuration files (as designed) and this
> somehow jams up a concurrent attempt to shutdown the postmaster.  I've
> got a simple patch to the PostgreSQL code to have it ignore SIGHUP
> when built for Cygwin -- in both the postmaster and any postgresql
> processes -- but I haven't found the time to pursue a better solution
> or to champion inclusion of this patch into the distributed PostgreSQL.

Please post your patch -- I've been waiting with bated breath since you
first mentioned it.  :,)  I will be quite willing to champion it (or a
better solution, if one can be devised) for inclusion into PostgreSQL CVS.

Thanks,
Jason

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