Re: Cygwin PostgreSQL CVS Patch

Tom,

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:23:20PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> writes:
> > I've already tested the no postmaster case.  Please be more explicit
> > regarding "connecting to a nonexistent socket" and etc.  I'm afraid that
> > if I guess then I'll miss something.
>
> The cases I was thinking of were (a) no socket file (normal case if no
> postmaster) and

Case a behaves correctly.

> (b) socket file present but no postmaster attached ---
> you can get that by kill -9'ing the postmaster ...

Unfortunately, case b causes psql to hang.  Using gdb, I was able to
trace that psql hangs calling select() in pqWait() (i.e.,
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c line 739).

I'm pretty sure that this is Cygwin bug.  I will try to formulate
a minimal test for submission to the Cygwin list but I'm not that
experienced with sockets.  Would anyone like to assist me with this
endeavor?

I will hold off submitting the patch until this is fixed.

Thanks,
Jason

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