Re: BUG #13594: pg_ctl.exe redirects stderr to Windows Events Log if stderr is redirected to pipe

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> On 01/08/2016 02:11 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:

> >Looking at the logs, the main difference is that win32security.c is
> >not compiled in -lpgport for cygwin, and cygwin goes through
> >src/include/port/win32.h to refer to some routines, so I would think
> >that the correct fix is to add win32security.c to the list of OBJS for
> >cygwin. So the attached is correct perhaps? That's a blind fix I don't
> >have cygwin set up on my machines now.

> I'll test it when I get a moment. Thanks for the patch.
>
> I see this service code goes back probably to the first commit of pg_ctl.c,
> which means it's going to have been either my fault or Bruce's :-)

Per IM conversation with Andrew, I pushed it blind and he'll set up an
immediate BF run on brolga so we know quickly whether it worked.

> TBH I'm not sure how to run postgres as a service on Cygwin. In
> general I would expect it to be via cygrunsrv, like other services I
> do actually run (cron and cygserver), rather than via pg_ctl. Anyway,
> for now lets see if we can get it building again.

Yeah, I guess you'd normally you'd do that, but the point is that the OP
was using pg_ctl to control one that's *not* a service and the logs were
still sent to Event Log because of the bug fixed here.

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