[HACKERS] plan for running postmaster directly as NT service

2001-01-27 Thread Fred Yankowski
I'm using PostgreSQL on WinNT to support (along with Zope) several websites. I've currently got postmaster running as an NT service by wrapping it with the 'invoker' utility, but I'd prefer to have it run directly as a service so that it can be stopped cleanly. I now know the basics of how to

RE: [HACKERS] plan for running postmaster directly as NT service

2001-01-27 Thread Magnus Hagander
d) How can we insure that the ipc-daemon service starts before the postgres/postmaster service? I believe that NT has some facility that allows one service to request start-up of another service, but I have no idea how to make that happen. You can use Service Dependencies for this. In you

Re: [HACKERS] plan for running postmaster directly as NT service

2001-01-27 Thread Tom Lane
Fred Yankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a) The 'install' and 'remove' code is quite bulky, although simple. Is it OK to create a new source file for it, rather than working it into some existing file? I think this'd be a lot easier to sell (and probably to implement) if the NT-specific stuff