pgsql: Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion
Date: 2016-01-03 18:56:41
Message-ID: E1aFnpZ-000751-GC@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion condition.

pgwin32_recv() has treated a non-error return of zero bytes from WSARecv()
as being a reason to block ever since the current implementation was
introduced in commit a4c40f140d23cefb. However, so far as one can tell
from Microsoft's documentation, that is just wrong: what it means is
graceful connection closure (in stream protocols) or receipt of a
zero-length message (in message protocols), and neither case should result
in blocking here. The only reason the code worked at all was that control
then fell into the retry loop, which did *not* treat zero bytes specially,
so we'd get out after only wasting some cycles. But as of 9.5 we do not
normally reach the retry loop and so the bug is exposed, as reported by
Shay Rojansky and diagnosed by Andres Freund.

Remove the unnecessary test on the byte count, and rearrange the code
in the retry loop so that it looks identical to the initial sequence.

Back-patch to 9.5. The code is wrong all the way back, AFAICS, but
since it's relatively harmless in earlier branches we'll leave it alone.

Branch
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REL9_5_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/29692bdbb1dffed0eda38ad8268655425a7dcdf5

Modified Files
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src/backend/port/win32/socket.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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