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

>
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 15:14, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lat...@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:
>> > ==========
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Hmm, yes. It make more sense to add check for CurrentMemoryContext in
> write_console().
>
> PFA patch for the same.
>

Oops missed the attachment.

Here it is ..

>
>
> Regards,
> Rushabh Lathia
> EnterpriseDB, The Enterprise PostgreSQL company.
>
Index: src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /repositories/postgreshome/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v
retrieving revision 1.226
diff -c -p -r1.226 elog.c
*** src/backend/utils/error/elog.c	19 Aug 2010 22:55:01 -0000	1.226
--- src/backend/utils/error/elog.c	1 Apr 2011 15:47:01 -0000
*************** write_console(const char *line, int len)
*** 1661,1667 ****
  	 */
  	if (GetDatabaseEncoding() != GetPlatformEncoding() &&
  		!in_error_recursion_trouble() &&
! 		!redirection_done)
  	{
  		WCHAR	   *utf16;
  		int			utf16len;
--- 1661,1668 ----
  	 */
  	if (GetDatabaseEncoding() != GetPlatformEncoding() &&
  		!in_error_recursion_trouble() &&
! 		!redirection_done &&
! 		CurrentMemoryContext)
  	{
  		WCHAR	   *utf16;
  		int			utf16len;
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