Re: [HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS] Windows service is not starting so there’s message in log: FATAL: "could not create shared memory segment “Global/PostgreSQL.851401618”: Permission denied” - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> This is wrong, current code does well for this case. I should
> broke the code during investigating the problem.
>
> > > So, to make the windows version behave as the same,
> > > dsm_impl_windows should return false if GetLastError() ==
> > > ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS regardless of hmap is valid. The current
> > > behavior is wrong because two or more postmaster *share* the same
> > > DSM segment instead of having their own segments.
>
> > > The patch attached will fix *both of* the problems.
>
> So, the patch fixes only the "Permission denied" case.
>

Why do you think it is bad to display even log for "Permission denied"

case?

It seems all other implementations does the same and I think it is

useful information and we should log it.  Don't you think the patch

sent by me is good enough to fix the reported issue?