Re: [HACKERS] backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) )

> Horak Daniel <horak(at)mmp(dot)plzen-city(dot)cz> writes:
> > I have tested my solution a bit more and I have to say that reusing a
> > semaphore by a new backend works OK. But it is not possible for a newly
> > created backend to use a semaphore allocated by postmaster (it freezes on
> > test if the semaphore with given key already exists - done with
> > semId=semget(semKey, 0, 0) in function IpcSemaphoreCreate() in
> > storage/ipc/ipc.c ). Why it is, I don't know, but it seems that my solution
> > uses the ipc library in the right way.
>
> It seems that you have found a bug in the cygipc library. I suggest
> reporting it to the author of same...

Yes, but can we expect all NT sites to get the patch before using
PostgreSQL? Is there a workaround we can implement?

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