Re: [HACKERS] make check error on -HEAD

Patch applied.  Thanks.

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >>>I have just seen this failure on Windows - it appears to
> >have nothing to
> >>>do there with finding an out of date libpq.
> >>
> >>Actually, *any* failure in pg_regress's first attempt to invoke psql
> >>yields this message.  I tweaked the script yesterday to not suppress
> >>stderr; do you have that update yet?
> >
> >Yes, but on Windows it doesn't give anything on stderr, it gives me a
> >nasty popup with no useful info I can see, and wants to send
> >info off to
> >microsoft.
>
> That's just the lovely way windows handles a "segfault". Gotta be really
> interesting for MS to catch all those dumps...
>
> Anyway. Oops. Seems I ran my regression tests with the old psql, and
> just managed to update the backend, when I tested that patch. Turns out
> there are codepaths where we'd access the Critical Section before it was
> initialized. Attached patch breaks the initializeation off to a separate
> part and adds that one to a much earlier position in the program.
>
> I've verified with Andrew that this fixes his problem.
>
> //Magnus
>

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