Re: Sometimes the output to the stdout in Windows disappears

I only found that calling WSACleanup instead of PQfinish has the same 
effect.

I don't see any big performance issues due to the extra fflush call in 
this place. I will be glad to find a more elegant solution.

Victor Spirin
Postgres Professional:http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

31.08.2020 21:31, Tom Lane пишет:
> Victor Spirin <v.spirin@postgrespro.ru> writes:
>> Sometimes the output to stdout on Windows on multicore machines does not
>> go through after connecting and disconnecting to the server using the
>> PQconnectdbParams and PQfinish functions. I tested on 6 cores.
> Hm, why is this not Microsoft's bug to solve?
>
> I do wonder if this report is related to the intermittent ecpg failures
> we see on Windows machines, such as [1].  The details vary, but it's
> always a case of a .stdout file ending up empty when it should not be.
> I'd supposed though that it must be something specific to ecpg, since
> we never see anything like that anywhere but the ecpg tests.  Even if
> you posit that libpq is doing something that somehow compromises stdio,
> that should affect psql-based tests too.
>
>> I am attaching a patch and a script for testing.
>> [ forced fflush in every snprintf call ]
> My goodness, that's a large hammer you're swinging.  What effects has this
> kluge got on performance?
>
> While I think you may be on to something, this seems like a truly horrid
> way to "fix" it.  We need to dig down further and understand what is
> actually happening.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
> [1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dory&dt=2020-08-13%2022%3A15%3A05
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