On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> More seriously, the Windows animals have been complaining about
>> pg_sleep() crashing the system:
>>   SELECT pg_sleep(0.1);
>> ! server closed the connection unexpectedly
>> ! This probably means the server terminated abnormally
>> ! before or while processing the request.
>> ! connection to server was lost
>>
>> And I think that the answer to this crash is in WaitForSingleObject(),
>> where the macro WAIT_TIMEOUT is already defined, so there is an
>> overlap with the new declarations in pgstat.h:
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa450988.aspx
>> This is also generating a bunch of build warnings now that I compile
>> HEAD on Windows. Regression tests are not crashing here, but I am
>> getting a failure in stats.sql and pg_sleep is broken. I swear I
>> tested that at some point and did not see a crash or those warnings...
>> But well what's done is done.
>>
>> It seems to me that a correct answer would be to rename this class ID.
>> But instead I'd suggest to append the prefix PG_* to all the class
>> events like in the attached, that passes make-check, contrib-check,
>> modules-check and builds without warnings on Windows. A more simple
>> fix would be just to rename WAIT_TIMEOUT to something else but
>> appending PG_ looks better in the long term.
>
> Committed.

Thanks.
-- 
Michael


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