Re: Win32 hard crash problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Win32 hard crash problem
Date
Msg-id 4027.1159566923@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Win32 hard crash problem  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Win32 hard crash problem  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Win32 hard crash problem  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> O.k. further on this.. the crashing is happening quickly now but not
> predictably. (as in sometimes a week sometimes 2 days).

OK, that seems to eliminate the GetTickCount-overflow theory anyway.

> That log entry is the last (of consequence) entry before the machine says:
> 2006-09-28 16:40:36.921  LOG:  received fast shutdown request

Oh?  That's pretty interesting on a Windows machine, because AFAIK there
wouldn't be any standard mechanism that might tie into our homegrown
signal facility.  Anyone have a theory on what might trigger a SIGINT
to the postmaster, other than intentional pg_ctl invocation?
        regards, tom lane


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