Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I'm thinking that walreceiver should be a stand-alone program that the
>> startup process launches, similar to how it invokes restore_command in
>> PITR recovery. Instead of using system(), though, it would use
>> fork+exec, and a pipe to communicate.
> 
> Here's a WIP patch to do that, over your latest posted patch. I've also
> pushed this to my git repository at
> git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/heikki/postgres.git, "replication"
> branch.
> 
> I'll continue reviewing...

BTW, my modified patch doesn't correctly zero-fill new WAL segments.
Needs to be fixed...

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