Re: postgres.exe has encountered a problem on windows

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 15:14, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Problem:
>> > ========
>> >
>> > On windows when we run postgres.exe without any command line args, its
>> > getting crash or its showing error into Application logs of Event
>> Viewer.
>> >
>> > Analysis:
>> > ==========
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>> > For any stderr we call the write_stderr() and write_stderr() calls the
>> > write_console() for stderr. Now here write_console() using the palloc()
>> > internally, which require the CurrentMemoryContext.
>> >
>> > At the startup CurrentMemoryContext will be NULL, so palloc again
>> calling
>> > write_stderr(). So recursion has been started and its ending up with
>> > exception.
>> >
>> > Call stack for palloc() is:
>> >
>> > main() -> check_root() -> write_stderr() -> write_console() ->
>> > pgwin32_toUTF16() -> palloc()
>> >
>> > Fix:
>> > =====
>> >
>> > Earlier  we used to call vfprintf() for windows stderr, which is now
>> > replaced with write_console().
>> > So to avoid the exception now, I added condition for
>> CurrentMemoryContext
>> > into write_stderr().
>> >
>> > PFA patch to fix the same.
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>> What about the cases where we directly call write_console()? Do we
>> know we are good there, or should the check perhaps be made inside
>> write_console() instead of in the caller?
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> Hmm, yes. It make more sense to add check for CurrentMemoryContext in
> write_console().
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> PFA patch for the same.
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Oops missed the attachment.

Here it is ..

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> Regards,
> Rushabh Lathia
> EnterpriseDB, The Enterprise PostgreSQL company.
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