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

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> 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?
>

It doesn't appear so, because we have
SetErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX); in
dlopen.

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Amit Kapila.
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