On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:46:17PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:41 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >I would like to see a more verbose comment, so we don't forget why we
> >did this. I think my inability to quickly discover the cause of the
> >previous log write problem is that I didn't document which file
> >descriptors are kept open on Windows. I suggest for a comment:
> >
> > /*
> > * "pg_ctl -w stop" might have reported that the server has
> > * stopped because the postmaster.pid file has been removed,
> > * but "pg_ctl -w start" might still be in the process of
> > * closing and might still be holding its stdout and -l log
> > * file descriptors open. Therefore, try to open the log
> > * file a few times.
> > */
> >
> >Anyway, we can easily adjust the comment post-9.2.0.
>
>
> Shall I apply the patch now? If so I'll include your comment.
Well, seems it is a crash bug. Apply so we can get some buildfarm
testing overnight.
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