On 2018-Aug-22, Alexander Kukushkin wrote:
> If I comment out the 'BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection("postgres",
> NULL);' call, postgres starts without any problem.
> What is very strange, because background worker itself is not doing anything...
>
> And one more thing, if I add sleep(15) before calling
> BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection, postgres manages to start
> successfully.
> Is there a very strange race condition here?
Sounds likely. I suggest to have a look at what's going on inside the
postmaster process when it gets stuck.
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