Re: [bug fix] Produce a crash dump before main() on Windows

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: 'Robert Haas' <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [bug fix] Produce a crash dump before main() on Windows
Date: 2018-07-23 07:26:35
Message-ID: 20180723072635.GL2854@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:31:57AM +0000, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:
> First, as Hari-san said, starting the server with "pg_ctl start" on
> the command prompt does not feel like production use but like test
> environment, and that usage seems mostly interactive. Second, the
> current PostgreSQL is not exempt from the same problem: if postmaster
> or standalone backend crashes before main(), the pop up would appear.

When you use pg_ctl start within the command prompt, then closing the
prompt session also causes Postgres to stop immediately. Would it be a
problem?

Another question I have is that I have seen Postgres fail to start
because of missing dependent libraries, which happened after the
postmaster startup as this was reported in the logs, could it be a
problem with this patch? If the system waits for an operator to close
this pop-up window, then it becomes harder to check automatically such
failures and relies on the test application to timeout, if it is wise
enough to do, which is not always the case..
--
Michael

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