Re: pgAdminII 1.1.66-Dev crash

[Dave Page]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Jongsma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: 30 November 2001 13:25
> To: Dave Page
> Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] pgAdminII 1.1.66-Dev crash
> 
> 
> 
> Dave,
> 
> >That doesn't overly surprise me. I suspect the MS Listview 
> control that 
> >pgAdmin uses is at fault - I have had trouble with it in the 
> past but I 
> >thought they fixed that. I'm *very* confident that it's not pgAdmin 
> >itself that's falling over, because the VB runtimes *always* catch 
> >coding errors and pgAdmin has extensive code to trap these and deal 
> >with them nicely. However a control such as the listview which is 
> >probably written in C++ probably has far less (and less 
> graceful)error 
> >handling.
> 
> On my homemachine I have Visual Studio installed, and crashes 
> of pgAdmin activitate the debugger and now the infamous "Dr Watson".
> 
> Any crash thusfar was in "kernel32.dll" and indicated an 
> address exception.
> 
> Further tested things on my end;
> 
> I made a simple "in the bubble" table containing 5 records,
> if you would look at it in CSV format it would be:
> 
> idx;title;intro;body;date;current 
> "1";"titel";"intro";"body";"26-05-2001";""
> "2";"titel";"intro";"body";"26-05-2001";""
> "3";"titel";"intro";"body";"26-05-2001";""
> "4";"titel";"intro";"body";"26-05-2001";""
> "5";"titel";"intro";"body";"26-05-2001";""
> 
> This table causes no problems whatsoever, create 10000+
> entries and it will still work like a charm.
> 
> However: extend the "body" field in record 5 to a
> string of exactly 12137 bytes or more and the
> problem will occur. Extract 1 byte and it will
> be fine.
> 
> The 5 records is completely arbitrary, the same
> problem occurs with only 1 record in the table.
> 
> This explains my earlier "random delete until it works",
> I randomly deleted stuff until only records where 
> length(body)<12137 were left.
> 
> Now how could I go and fix this? Is this Listview component 
> part of VB runtime or is it part of the Windows system?

It ships with VB - it's actually part of mscomctl.ocx which is the
'Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0'. What version do you have there (I
have 6.1.83.41)?

/Dave.