ISTM that IsUnderPostmaster should mean we are a child process of the

postmaster ... it should not be set in the postmaster itself.

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 40ff1a661b38ed28360bcf7f4bd7f04f0bb537cc..85197e957ae317c2e8e30dff36e02216eac0723a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.243 2001/09/21 20:31:48 tgl Exp $
+ *   $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.244 2001/09/30 20:08:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -312,8 +312,6 @@ PostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])
    char        original_extraoptions[MAXPGPATH];
    char       *potential_DataDir = NULL;
 
-   IsUnderPostmaster = true;   /* so that backends know this */
-
    *original_extraoptions = '\0';
 
    progname = argv[0];
@@ -1935,6 +1933,8 @@ DoBackend(Port *port)
     * Let's clean up ourselves as the postmaster child
     */
 
+   IsUnderPostmaster = true;   /* we are a postmaster subprocess now */
+
    /* We don't want the postmaster's proc_exit() handlers */
    on_exit_reset();
 
@@ -2317,6 +2317,8 @@ SSDataBase(int xlop)
        beos_backend_startup();
 #endif
 
+       IsUnderPostmaster = true; /* we are a postmaster subprocess now */
+
        /* Lose the postmaster's on-exit routines and port connections */
        on_exit_reset();