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Re: Windows crash / abort handling

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2022-02-01T22:24:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:02 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2022-01-09 16:57:04 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I've attached a patch implementing these changes.
>
> Unless somebody is planning to look at this soon, I'm planning to push it to
> master. It's too annoying to have these hangs and not see backtraces.

+1, I don't know enough about Windows development to have an opinion
on the approach but we've got to try *something*, these hangs are
terrible.

Commits

  1. windows: Improve crash / assert / exception handling.

  2. ci: windows: run tests under timeout.

  3. Prevent Win32 from displaying a popup box on backend crash. Instead let