On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:31:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:27:34PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:57:28AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Everyone should be aware that the 9.3 pg_upgrade -j/--jobs option on
> > > Windows is currently broken, and hopefully will be fixed by the next
> > > beta.
> > >
> > > Someone at PGDay UK told me they were getting pg_upgrade -j crashes on
> > > Windows. Andrew Dunstan was able to reproduce the crash, and that has
> > > been fixed, but there is still a race condition that I am trying to
> > > diagnose.
> >
> > After three days of testing and creating a Windows MinGW build
> > environment (with Andrew's help), I have come up with the attached patch
> > which fixes the pg_upgrade -j race condition on Windows. In summary,
> > creating a file with fopen() from a non-primary thread and then calling
> > system() soon after can result in a file-in-use error. The solution was
> > to issue the fopen() after system() in such cases.
> >
> > This would be applied to head and 9.3.
>
> Sorry, patch attached.
Applied, and backpatched to 9.3.
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