Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar ago 10 19:49:18 -0400 2010: > Offhand the only clean way I can see to launch a child process is to > fork *and exec something*. You probably should close any open file descriptors too, just to be safe. (Or do we set FD_CLOEXEC on them?) -- Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general