Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Uh, see port.h, lines 212-224. If you're using the pipe() command to >> create it, it's used. >> > > No, it's the other way around :-) If you use pgpipe() on Unix you're > calling pipe():
D'oh. You're right, of course. I'm obviously not in a state where I should be reading C code right now :) >>> Maybe you should have a good look at src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c. >>> If we could get rid of the pipe-read threads and all the special Windows >>> cruft there that would certainly be an advance. >>> >> >> I'll try to squeeze some time in to do that - I'll have to read up on >> the whole pipe/chunk thing first though, so it'll be a while. >> > You don't need to understand the protocol (it's a very simple > packetising protocol). The important point is that we have an anonymous > pipe (created with CreatePipe) which has been dup'ed into stderr. Ok. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
