Re: [PERFORM] scalability issues on win32

Hi Bruce and all,

sorry guys, I won't have a chance to get to this until after the Christmas break.

If one of the other usual suspects (Dave, Andrew, Magnus, Merlin) can claim it sooner, please do!

Cheers,
Claudio



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: Friday, 17 December 2004 11:25 AM
> To: Claudio Natoli
> Cc: 'Merlin Moncure'; Tom Lane; Win 32 hackers PGSQL
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-hackers-win32] scalability
> issues on win32
>
>
>
> Claudio, I need this completed so we can get it into CVS.
> Without it a
> 8.0.0 version string will fail to compare.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
>
> Claudio Natoli wrote:
> >
> > Hi Merlin,
> >
> > > On a probably unrelated note:
> > > Can some other win32 hacker try the following?
> > > Download the latest cvs sources from the server and edit
> configure,
> > > replacing all instances of '8.0beta5' with '8.0' etc. as is
> > > will be when released.  Following that do a full
> make/make clean.  After
> > > that try and start he server with pg_ctl.exe and tell me
> if it succeeds or
> > not.
> >
> > I can confirm this failure.
> >
> > (in my case at least) pg_ctl is not seeing the full version
> string of the
> > postmaster in find_other_exec. This is due to the single
> call to ReadFile in
> > pipe_read_line, which is not returning the entire version
> string (losing all
> > characters beyond the last decimal point in the version string). A
> > subsequent call to ReadFile picks up the remainder of the
> string. I don't
> > see that we can rely on a single call returning the entire
> version string.
> >
> > If someone can run with this, I've attached initial looping
> changes for
> > pipe_read_line. However I'm not sure of the correct
> terminating condition
> > (gets into a call to ReadFile that never returns; the
> WaitForSingleObject
> > appears insufficient as a precondition for ReadFile) and
> just don't have
> > time to complete it right now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Claudio
> >
> >
>
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