If there are no objections I will apply this patch within the next day
or so.

Regards, Dave.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slony1-general-bounces at gborg.postgresql.org 
> [mailto:slony1-general-bounces at gborg.postgresql.org] On 
> Behalf Of Magnus Hagander
> Sent: 17 July 2005 16:06
> To: slony1-general at gborg.postgresql.org
> Subject: [Slony1-general] [PATCH] slon win32
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Here is a first rough patch for slon to run on win32. It does 
> enough so
> that I can replicate back and forth between my linux and win32 boxes.
> There are a lot of thigns still to do - there is no service 
> integratino
> (though the code expects it..), no eventlog etc. but it's a 
> start, and I
> figured I should get it out there for people to comment on 
> and possibly
> apply so it won't conflict with others...
> 
> Changes:
> * Added "override" to LDFLAGS in the Makefile. I am no 
> makefile guru, so
> I don't really know why :-) But it was there for CFLAGS, and 
> without it,
> the pthreads library simply wasn't added to the build command...
> 
> * For win32 only, added mandatory link to "wsock32" winsock functions,
> required so we can access TCP/IP functions at all.
> 
> * #ifdef out the whole "watchdog process" for win32. Win32 
> does not have
> signals, so we don't need a special process to catch and 
> channel those.
> And we expect the service control manager to deal with restarts as
> required (when it comes).
> 
> * As a consequence of win32 not having signals, change exits 
> to just do
> exit() instead of sigterm:ing the own process. This includes modifying
> slon_abort() and slon_restart() (_restart seems never to be used?)
> 
> * Import pgpipe implementation from postgresql backend, and change all
> read/write to piperead/pipewrite - same as in the pg backend. This is
> rquired because on win32 you can't "select()" on a pipe. The pgpipe
> implementation uses TCP sockets instead.
> 
> * Remove teh sched_shutdown() code per my previous mail. Not 
> strictly a
> part of the win32 work...
> 
> 
> 
> Those are the main changes.
> 
> pipe.c goes in src/slon/. It's a direct import from 
> postgresql with the
> only change being the replacement of ereport with slon_log.
> 
> //Magnus
> 
>