Re: BUG #15076: postmaster crashes unexpectedly when using up arrow key in psql command

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:16 AM, 趙明春 <mzhao(at)insight-tec(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:

> Hi, Tom and Magnus,
>
> Thanks for your information for this issue.
>
> > AFAIC Windows has no way to disassociate a process with a console window
> in a similar way.
>
> Can this be a solution for this issue to add an option
> CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP to CreateProcess() function into pg_ctl.exe to
> start postgres.exe process?
>

That definitely sounds like it should be worth a try.

> I will say though that most people run the postmaster as a background
> service on Windows, rather than launching it manually.
>
> Unfortunately, we also met this issue, with poor reproducibility, when we
> running the postmaster as Windows Service.
> Maybe this is another story than launching it manually by pg_ctl.exe.
> I will update you if I get any new information.
>
>
That sounds very strange. I'm not saying you're not running into an issue
there, but my guess would be you're actually running into a different
problem (which may have similar symptoms).

//Magnus