Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-10 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Magnus Hagander wrote: I did notice the #ifdef's are actually different in the header and body section of the patch, which seems wrong. I used the one from the actual implementation (_M_AMD64) for the header includes as, and also merged the #ifdef's together to a single #if in each section.

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote: > * Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 2/12/16 11:24 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote: >> > > Otherwise, it may be time to update the manual (15.6 Supported >>> Platforms) where it says PostgreSQL "can be expected to work on

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-09 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: * Magnus Hagander wrote: How does this work wrt mingw, though? Do we have the same problem there? AIUI this code can never run on mingw, correct? Not unless mingw defines _MSC_VER.

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Christian Ullrich > wrote: > > And apparently not a single one with VS 2013. OK, I'll see what I can do > > about setting some up soonish, at least with (server) 2008 and (client) 7. > > FWIW, I have a local build of

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: > * Magnus Hagander wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Christian Ullrich >> wrote: >> > > On February 13, 2016 4:10:34 PM Tom Lane wrote: >>> >> > I'm also

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-09 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Magnus Hagander wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: On February 13, 2016 4:10:34 PM Tom Lane wrote: I'm also suspicious of the "#if _MSC_VER == 1800" tests, that is, the code compiles on *exactly one* MSVC version.

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: > On February 13, 2016 4:10:34 PM Tom Lane wrote: > > > Christian Ullrich writes: > >> * Robert Haas wrote: > >>> Thanks for the report and patch. Regrettably I haven't

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-08 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 2/12/16 11:24 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote: Otherwise, it may be time to update the manual (15.6 Supported Platforms) where it says PostgreSQL "can be expected to work on these operating systems: [...] Windows (Win2000 SP4 and later), [...]". Perhaps we could add

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-03-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2/12/16 11:24 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote: > Otherwise, it may be time to update the manual (15.6 Supported > Platforms) where it says PostgreSQL "can be expected to work on these > operating systems: [...] Windows (Win2000 SP4 and later), [...]". > Perhaps we could add "except Windows before 7

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-13 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Ullrich writes: > * Robert Haas wrote: >> Thanks for the report and patch. Regrettably I haven't the Windows >> knowledge to have any idea whether it's right or wrong, but hopefully >> someone who knows Windows will jump in here. > In commitfest now. FWIW, I'm a

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-13 Thread Christian Ullrich
On February 13, 2016 4:10:34 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Christian Ullrich writes: >> * Robert Haas wrote: >>> Thanks for the report and patch. Regrettably I haven't the Windows >>> knowledge to have any idea whether it's right or wrong, but hopefully >>>

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-13 Thread Yury Zhuravlev
Tom Lane wrote: Lastly, I'd like to see some discussion of what side effects "_set_FMA3_enable(0);" has ... I rather doubt that it's really a magic-elixir-against-crashes-with-no-downsides. That would give us some context to estimate the risks of this code executing when it's not really needed.

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-13 Thread Christian Ullrich
* From: Christian Ullrich > On February 13, 2016 4:10:34 PM Tom Lane wrote: > > > Christian Ullrich writes: > > Lastly, I'd like to see some discussion of what side effects > > "_set_FMA3_enable(0);" has ... I rather doubt that it's really > > a

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 13 February 2016 at 23:45, Christian Ullrich wrote: > > > Maybe that's actually > > what's needed, but it sure looks fishy. And what connection does the > > build toolchain version have to the runtime environment anyway? > > The CRT version is tied to the compiler

[HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-12 Thread Christian Ullrich
Hello, I just found a compatibility issue when I was migrating an elderly VM to a new host. The VM is running Windows Server 2008 SP2, and it has the EDB build of PostgreSQL 9.4.5 on it. (9.4.6 behaves the same.) It is also not dependent on running in a VM; it would fail on the hardware as

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-12 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Christian Ullrich wrote: startup_hacks(), I think. Proposed patch attached. Thanks for the report and patch. Regrettably I haven't the Windows knowledge to have any idea whether it's right or wrong, but hopefully

Re: [HACKERS] Crash with old Windows on new CPU

2016-02-12 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Christian Ullrich wrote: Backends (and possibly other processes) crash at the slightest provocation, such as "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity;" or VACUUM. The log says either "exception 0xC005" (segfault) or "exception 0xC01D" (illegal instruction). The interesting reason: The old