Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:54:09 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Mike Palmiotto <mike.palmiotto@crunchydata.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>,
	Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
	Yuli Khodorkovskiy <yuli.khodorkovskiy@crunchydata.com>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Auxiliary Processes and MyAuxProc
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On 2020-Mar-18, Mike Palmiotto wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:26 AM Mike Palmiotto
> <mike.palmiotto@crunchydata.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:17 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > > Also, I saw this was failing tests both before and after my rebase.
> > >
> > > http://cfbot.cputube.org/
> > > https://ci.appveyor.com/project/postgresql-cfbot/postgresql/builds/31535161
> > > https://ci.appveyor.com/project/postgresql-cfbot/postgresql/builds/31386446
> >
> > Good catch, thanks. Will address this as well in the next round. Just
> > need to set up a Windows dev environment to see if I can
> > reproduce/fix.
> 
> While I track this down, here is a rebased patchset, which drops
> MySubprocessType and makes use of the MyBackendType.

Note that you can compile with -DEXEC_BACKEND to use in a *nix build the
same technique used to spawn processes in Windows, which might be an
easier way to discover some problems without a proper Windows build.

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