
commit, but I am adding it now so it is in CVS.] The patch basically is a slight rearrangement of the code to allow fork/exec on Unix, with the ultimate goal of doing CreateProcess on Win32. The changes are: o Write out postmaster global variables and per-backend variables to be read by the exec'ed backend o Mark some static variables as global when exec is used so then can be dumped from postmaster.c, marked NON_EXEC_STATIC o Remove value passing with -p now that we have per-backend file o Move some pointer storage out of shared memory for easier dumping. o Modified pgsql_temp directory cleanup to handle per-database directories and the backend exec directory under datadir. Claudio Natoli
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