Re: [HACKERS] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: [HACKERS] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit
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Msg-id 878x5v6l4t.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de
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In response to Re: 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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* Magnus Hagander:

> Oh, that's interesting. That's actually a sideeffect of us increasing
> the stack size for the postgres.exe executable in order to work on other
> things. By default, it burns 1MB/thread, but ours will do 4MB. Never
> really thought of the problem that it'll run out of address space.
> Unfortunately, that size can't be changed in the CreateThread() call -
> only the initially committed size can be changed there.

Windows XP supports the STACK_SIZE_PARAM_IS_A_RESERVATION flag, which
apparently allows to reduce the reserved size.  It might be better to do
this the other way round, though (leave the reservation at its 1 MB
default, and increase it only when necessary).

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