Hi all We use postgres 8.0.4 for our application on Linux ES3 kernel 2.4.21-4. We wrote a small shell script for starting postgres, which does little more than just calling postmaster. We trap interrupt signal in the shell script to allow postgres to start even if interrupted by the user. But the trap does not seem to work with postmaster or pg_ctl - that is, the process shuts down. #pg_cant_trap.sh #!/bin/sh pg_ctl stop && sleep 10 #to stop any earlier instance trap 'printf "trapped\n"' 2 3 pg_ctl start pg_ctl status sleep 10 #interrupt the script at this point sleep 10 pg_ctl status Interrupting the script at the mentioned point stops the postmaster. This behavior is not seen if I replace postmaster by some of my own shell script or a program, that is it does not stop. A small thing, but I am interested in knowing how it is possible for postmaster to behave in this way.
