Subject: backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) )
From: Horak Daniel <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>, "'Joost Kraaijeveld'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:35:54 +0200

Hi,

I think I have fixed the freezing of the postgres backend on Windows NT. Now
it survives 5 regression test in a cycle with some concurrent connections
during running the tests.

Where the problem was (manual backtrace):
- InitPostgres() (utils/init/postinit.c)
- InitProcess() (storage/lmgr/proc.c)
- IpcSemaphoreCreate() (storage/ipc/ipc.c)
- semget() (now in libcygipc - sem.c)
- sem_connect() (sem.c)
- WaitForSingleObject() (win32 system call)
- freezing....

It have looked like a problem with initializing the same semaphore for
second time (they are "preinitialized" for performance reasons in
InitProcGlobal() in storage/lmgr/proc.c)

The fix (made for v6.5.1) is here:
-------------------------------
--- src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c.old	Sat Aug 14 16:50:19 1999
+++ src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c	Sat Aug 14 16:50:52 1999
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@
 		 * Pre-create the semaphores for the first maxBackends
processes,
 		 * unless we are running as a standalone backend.
 		 */
+#ifndef __CYGWIN__
 		if (key != PrivateIPCKey)
 		{
 			for (i = 0;
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@
 				ProcGlobal->freeSemMap[i] = (1 <<
PROC_NSEMS_PER_SET);
 			}
 		}
+#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
 	}
 }
------------------------------- 

				Dan

PS: I have packed the tree after "make install" for 6.5.1 with the patch
above, so it is a "binary distribution".

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