Re: Win32 hard crash problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>>> Fail in what way. Hang, not connect, or get an error msg?
> 
>> Just verified with customer. Once the problem occurs the first time, the 
>> customer will continually get the same error message for each subsequent 
>> connection attempt:
> 
>> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> 
> During the connection attempt?  I don't think libpq can report that
> message until it tries to do a regular query (might be wrong though).
> Is the client using some application that's going to issue a query
> immediately on connecting?

Well, windows ;) Customer says that they double click pgadmin and they 
get that message. I have informed them on how to increase to debug5 and 
hopefully we get something from that, of course it will likely be 24.85 
days from now ;)

> 
> It would be useful to turn on log_connections and log_statement (and
> perhaps crank log_min_messages all the way up to DEBUG5) to see if we
> can get anything in the postmaster log giving a hint what actually
> happens here.  A TCP sniff of the connection attempt traffic would be
> pretty useful too.
> 

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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