Re: [HACKERS] backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) ) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) )
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Msg-id 199908171501.LAA08905@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) )  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Horak Daniel <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz> writes:
> > I have tested my solution a bit more and I have to say that reusing a
> > semaphore by a new backend works OK. But it is not possible for a newly
> > created backend to use a semaphore allocated by postmaster (it freezes on
> > test if the semaphore with given key already exists - done with
> > semId=semget(semKey, 0, 0) in function IpcSemaphoreCreate() in
> > storage/ipc/ipc.c ). Why it is, I don't know, but it seems that my solution
> > uses the ipc library in the right way.
> 
> It seems that you have found a bug in the cygipc library.  I suggest
> reporting it to the author of same...

Yes, but can we expect all NT sites to get the patch before using
PostgreSQL?  Is there a workaround we can implement?

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