Re: Sometimes the output to the stdout in Windows disappears

Victor Spirin <v(dot)spirin(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
> Sometimes the output to stdout on Windows on multicore machines does not
> go through after connecting and disconnecting to the server using the
> PQconnectdbParams and PQfinish functions. I tested on 6 cores.

Hm, why is this not Microsoft's bug to solve?

I do wonder if this report is related to the intermittent ecpg failures
we see on Windows machines, such as [1]. The details vary, but it's
always a case of a .stdout file ending up empty when it should not be.
I'd supposed though that it must be something specific to ecpg, since
we never see anything like that anywhere but the ecpg tests. Even if
you posit that libpq is doing something that somehow compromises stdio,
that should affect psql-based tests too.

> I am attaching a patch and a script for testing.
> [ forced fflush in every snprintf call ]

My goodness, that's a large hammer you're swinging. What effects has this
kluge got on performance?

While I think you may be on to something, this seems like a truly horrid
way to "fix" it. We need to dig down further and understand what is
actually happening.

regards, tom lane

[1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dory&dt=2020-08-13%2022%3A15%3A05