Re: [PERFORM] scalability issues on win32

Claudio Natoli wrote:

>>How is it that this has not bitten us elsewhere?  Are we only reading
>>tiny things from pipes in other cases so that a single read works?
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>IIRC, this particular use of ReadFile is only to read version strings.
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>>It seems very strange that a shorter version string should cause the
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>failure.
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>Counterintuitive, but appeared entirely reproducible on my WinXP
>installation. No doubt there is a perfectly unreasonable explanation.
>Interested in seeing another confirmation.
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I tried but  buildfarm stops before we get there :-(

regression failure on  join - see
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=loris&dt=2004-12-03%2003:16:39

It's too late for me to do anything about it tonight.

>In any case, afaics ReadFile fails to make any guarantee that it will return
>an entire line, so pipe_read_line requires attention.
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Quite.


cheers

andrew