Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Hence, attached revised patch ... Looks good. Something I'm still wondering is about the archiver/logger combination. What happens if a postmaster is stopped by the user and the archiver is still running, and the user starts a new postmaster? This would launch a new archiver

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:01:20PM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: Hi Magnus, and Dave. It seems that it is different in nmake although the initial value of VisualStudio is embedding. Then, It sees a reference problem by the dll independent. Therefore, embedding considers like an ideal.

Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something I'm still wondering is about the archiver/logger combination. What happens if a postmaster is stopped by the user and the archiver is still running, and the user starts a new postmaster? This would launch a new archiver and logger; and there

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Hiroshi Saito
From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Condition understanding of '=' is not made as for namke of VC6 to a regrettable thing, but it causes an error to it:-( So, except all thought that it was good. Hmm. Crap. Perhaps there's something else we can check on? Like a feature or

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:15:53AM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Condition understanding of '=' is not made as for namke of VC6 to a regrettable thing, but it causes an error to it:-( So, except all thought that it was good. Hmm. Crap. Perhaps

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Hi. - Original Message - From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:01:20PM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: Hi Magnus, and Dave. It seems that it is different in nmake although the initial value of VisualStudio is embedding. Then, It sees a reference problem

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Hiroshi Saito
From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think of a good idea. However, since our document has announced officially, saying =VC7.1. Therefore, I think that it is satisfactory. Ah, good point, I forgot about that. But - if we do that, why do we need that IF check *at all*? It is

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:52:15PM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: Hi. - Original Message - From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:01:20PM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: Hi Magnus, and Dave. It seems that it is different in nmake although the initial

Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:28 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Yeah, that seems the safest to me -- the problem is that it complicates the shutdown sequence a fair bit, because postmaster must act differently depending on whether archiving is enabled or not: wait for bgwriter exit if disabled, or

Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: There was discussion of having a lock file for the archiver, but it's still an open issue. I'm not sure how to solve the problem of stale lockfiles --- unlike the postmaster, the archiver can't assume that it's the only live process with the postgres userid. For example,

Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Maybe we should go back to the plan of having the postmaster wait for the archiver to exit. Yeah, that seems the safest to me -- the problem is that it complicates the shutdown sequence a fair bit, because postmaster must act

Re: [PATCHES] reference problem of manifest.(win32.mak of libpq.dll)

2008-01-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:29:53AM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think of a good idea. However, since our document has announced officially, saying =VC7.1. Therefore, I think that it is satisfactory. Ah, good point, I forgot about that. But

Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something I'm still wondering is about the archiver/logger combination. What happens if a postmaster is stopped by the user and the archiver is still running, and the user starts a new postmaster?

Re: [PATCHES] Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: I'll respin my patch this way... Third time's the charm? regards, tom lane binFKkWVCJKov.bin Description: archiver-shutdown-3.patch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

[PATCHES] Re: [BUGS] BUG #3860: xpath crashes backend when is querying xmlagg result

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane escribió: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps a better idea is to create a separate LibxmlContext memcxt, child of QueryContext, and have xml_palloc etc always use that. That way it won't be reset between calls. It probably also means we could wire xml reset to

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] BUG #3860: xpath crashes backend when is querying xmlagg result

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + void + AtEOXact_xml(void) + { + if (LibxmlContext == NULL) + return; + + MemoryContextDelete(LibxmlContext); + LibxmlContext = NULL; + + xmlCleanupParser(); + } [ blink... ] Shouldn't that be the other way

Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] BUG #3860: xpath crashes backend when is querying xmlagg result

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane escribió: One thing I was wondering about earlier today is whether libxml isn't expecting NULL-return-on-failure from the malloc-substitute routine. If we take control away from it unexpectedly, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if its data