Re: Sometimes the output to the stdout in Windows disappears - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I wrote:
>> diff -w -U3
>> .../src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/thread-descriptor.stderr
>> .../src/interfaces/ecpg/test/results/thread-descriptor.stderr
>> --- .../src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/thread-descriptor.stderr   
>> 2019-12-04 16:05:46 +0300
>> +++ .../src/interfaces/ecpg/test/results/thread-descriptor.stderr   
>> 2020-10-18 20:20:27 +0300
>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> +SQL error: descriptor "mydesc" not found on line 31

> does not look like the same kind of failure as what we've been dealing
> with up to now.  So maybe what we've got is that we fixed the stdio
> loss problem, and now the error rate is down to the point where we can
> notice other, even-lower-probability issues.

Yeah, I think so.  I grepped the buildfarm logs for similar failures and
found three occurrences:

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=bowerbird&dt=2019-02-03%2018%3A36%3A05
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=bowerbird&dt=2019-01-17%2014%3A30%3A07
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=drongo&dt=2020-01-02%2018%3A03%3A52

All of these are in the thread/descriptor test, failing at the deallocate
step in

    for (i = 1; i <= REPEATS; ++i)
    {
        EXEC SQL ALLOCATE DESCRIPTOR mydesc;
        EXEC SQL DEALLOCATE DESCRIPTOR mydesc;
    }

where the test is running several of these in different threads.
I wonder whether there's some missing thread-locking in the ECPG
descriptor support.  It is odd though that we have seen this only
on Windows members.  Low-probability or not, you'd think we'd have
some similar reports from non-Windows critters if it were possible.

            regards, tom lane