Re: windows builds hanging on regression checks

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: windows builds hanging on regression checks
Date: 2008-05-17 23:44:48
Message-ID: 482F6DF0.6000004@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> Something committed in about the last 24 hours or so has caused my
>> Windows buildfarm members to hang completely while running the
>> regression tests. It's happened for both MinGW and MSVC builds.
>>
>
> baiji and dawn_bat are both green now, so apparently Stefan was correct
> to guess that the array indexing bug in psql/print.c was the problem.
> I don't understand, however, how that manifested as a hang and not
> a core dump. Does Windows not treat bogus pointer dereference the
> same as everyone else does?
>
>
>

Yes, it does. What hung apparently was the Dr Watson error reporting
tool. I think I've disabled it for everything but the OS now.

cheers

andrew

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