On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> I like that better actually ... one less thing for developers to get wrong. > >> The attached patch appears to work correctly on MacOS X. I did check, >> BTW: getppid() in the attached process returns gdb's pid. Poor! > > Looks good to me. > >> For my own purposes, I would be just as happy to apply this only to >> master. But I wonder if anyone wants to argue for back-patching, to >> help debug existing installations? > > Given the lack of non-developer complaints, I see no need to backpatch.
Well, non-developers don't tend to attach gdb very often. Alvaro mentioned a problem installation upthread, thus the question. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
