From: Michael Paquier [mailto:mich...@paquier.xyz] > Imagine an application which relies on Postgres, still does *not* start > it as a service but uses "pg_ctl start" > automatically. This could be triggered as part of another service startup > which calls say system(), or as another script. Wouldn't that cause > potentially a freeze?
Do you mean by "another service startup": another service (Windows service) -> an application (not a Windows service) -> pg_ctl start Then pg_ctl runs under the Windows service environment, and the popup won't appear. > I am also not sure that I quite understand why a > popup would never show up if a different service startup triggers pg_ctl > start by itself that fails. I experimented it with a sample program that I showed in this thread. A program invoked by a Windows services also runs in the service. Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa
