Re: windows builds hanging on regression checks

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: windows builds hanging on regression checks
Date: 2008-05-17 23:23:20
Message-ID: 14780.1211066600@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Something committed in about the last 24 hours or so has caused my
> Windows buildfarm members to hang completely while running the
> regression tests. It's happened for both MinGW and MSVC builds.

baiji and dawn_bat are both green now, so apparently Stefan was correct
to guess that the array indexing bug in psql/print.c was the problem.
I don't understand, however, how that manifested as a hang and not
a core dump. Does Windows not treat bogus pointer dereference the
same as everyone else does?

regards, tom lane

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