Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes: > > Peter Brant wrote: > >> We've never been able reproduce (or even trigger) the original "sem_ctl > >> failed" error in a testing environment so it would be hard to say if the > >> changes to win32/sema.c have an impact on it or not. On the other hand, > >> win32_sema.c seems to solve the pgbench lockups reported earlier by Jim > >> N. and it successfully completes a reasonably brutal stress test with > >> real world data and real world queries (which at least is a good > >> indication that it basically works). > > > OK, let's consider the item closed. We didn't backpatch the new > > win32_sema.c file to 8.1.X or 8.0.X, so let'see if we get more reports. > > Based on that, backpatching the new win32_sema.c implementation is > probably more defensible than applying the proposed smaller patch > anyway; it's survived more testing. > > My inclination is to do nothing to the back branches, but if we get more > field reports of trouble with them, maybe that's what to do. (I'd be > happier if 8.2 gets through beta first, as I'm still a bit worried about > the do-all-Windows-versions-act-the-same bit.)
Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
