Re: Postgres service stops when I kill client backend on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dmitry Vasilyev
Subject Re: Postgres service stops when I kill client backend on Windows
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Msg-id 1444685091.12868.5.camel@postgrespro.ru
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In response to Re: Postgres service stops when I kill client backend on Windows  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hello Tom!
On Пн, 2015-10-12 at 16:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > This is kind of a mess :-(.  But it does look like what we want is
> > for SubPostmasterMain to do more than nothing when it chooses not
> > to
> > reattach.  Probably that should include resetting UsedShmemSegAddr
> > to
> > NULL, as well as closing the handle.
> 
> After poking around a bit more, I propose the attached patch.  I've
> checked that this is happy with an EXEC_BACKEND Unix build, but I'm
> not
> able to test it on Windows ... would somebody do that?
> 
> BTW, it appears from this that Cygwin builds have been broken right
> along
> in a different way: according to the code in sysv_shmem's
> PGSharedMemoryReAttach, Cygwin does cause a re-attach to occur, which
> we
> were not undoing for putatively-not-connected-to-shmem child
> processes.
> That's a robustness problem because it breaks the postmaster's
> expectation
> that it's safe to not reinitialize shmem after a crash of one of
> those
> processes.  I believe this patch fixes that problem as well, though
> if
> anyone can test it on Cygwin that wouldn't be a bad thing either.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

This patch is working for me,
binaries: https://goo.gl/32j7QE (MSVC 2010, build script here: https://github.com/postgrespro/pgwininstall).


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Dmitry Vasilyev
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The Russian Postgres Company




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