Re: Win32 question: getppid() with no parent? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> Question though - we keep a PostmasterPid variable, right?

Yeah we do; we must have it to signal the postmaster from the children.

> (If we can't rely on that variable, we could do a win32 specific hack
> that passes the HANDLE of the postmaster down to the child on exec, I
> guess.)

Is this just like passing a variable value, or is there some more
protection involved?

            regards, tom lane