pgsql: Fix ancient bug in ecpg's pthread_once() emulation for Windows. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix ancient bug in ecpg's pthread_once() emulation for Windows.
Date
Msg-id E1kWN6k-0002Np-Bm@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix ancient bug in ecpg's pthread_once() emulation for Windows.

We must not set the "done" flag until after we've executed the
initialization function.  Otherwise, other threads can fall through
the initial unlocked test before initialization is really complete.

This has been seen to cause rare failures of ecpg's thread/descriptor
test, and it could presumably cause other sorts of misbehavior in
threaded ECPG-using applications, since ecpglib relies on
pthread_once() in several places.

Diagnosis and patch by me, based on investigation by Alexander Lakhin.
Back-patch to all supported branches (the bug dates to 2007).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16685-d6cd241872c101d3@postgresql.org

Branch
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REL9_6_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/379c43bdad1d18786b87f38e8761f61a478b5875

Modified Files
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src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/misc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


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