Re: Win32 hard crash problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)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?

Well the other option would be a windows restart. On windows would that
send a SIGINT to the backend?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
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