Re: Systemd support (was:Re: [GENERAL] Please say it isn't so)

2017-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Vick Khera writes: > What exactly does the configure flag to enable systemd support do? Not a lot. A quick grep for USE_SYSTEMD says it does nothing except add code in the postmaster to report ready/not-ready state transitions by calling sd_notify(). We have significantly more

Re: Systemd support (was:Re: [GENERAL] Please say it isn't so)

2017-07-13 Thread Vick Khera
What exactly does the configure flag to enable systemd support do? It seems to me that building software to the systemd platform is just the same as building it for windows vs unix or any other platform. One can only hope it doesn't cause the others to wither away. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:20

Systemd support (was:Re: [GENERAL] Please say it isn't so)

2017-07-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 12/07/17 05:00, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Please tell me this is a mistake: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Systemd Why a database system should care about how processes get started is beyond me. Systemd is an entangled mess that every year subsumes more and more of the operating system,