Re: PQprint under Windows

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> >> I tried to compile PyGreSQL under Windows.
> >> Everything seems to work, except some functions which are using PQprint.
> >> Whenever these functions are called, I get a Windows exception.
> >> ...
> >> Can anybody confirm that PQprint is or was ever running under Windows?
> >> The 8.1 docu does not say that it is deprecated or not running under
> >> Windows. Can it be a bug?
> >
> > It should work. What exception are you getting, and what line in the C
> > file is it complaining about?
>
> Here is the exception I am getting:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> pythonw.exe caused an Invalid Handle at location 7c974ed1 in module
> ntdll.dll.
>
> Registers:
> eax=0021f6a0 ebx=00000000 ecx=0021f6e8 edx=7c91eb94 esi=7c38b528
> edi=00000000
> eip=7c974ed1 esp=0021f6a0 ebp=0021f6f0 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na
> po nc
> cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000
> efl=00000246
>
> Call stack:
> 7C974ED1 ntdll.dll:7C974ED1 RtlRaiseStatus
> 7C95243C ntdll.dll:7C95243C RtlInitializeSListHead
> 7C91104B ntdll.dll:7C91104B RtlEnterCriticalSection
> 77C1174F msvcrt.dll:77C1174F fwrite
> 6311321C libpq.dll:6311321C pg_encoding_to_char
> 63114007 libpq.dll:63114007 pg_encoding_to_char
> 63114067 libpq.dll:63114067 pg_encoding_to_char
> 631094A2 libpq.dll:631094A2 PQprint
> 10003DC3 _pg.dll:10003DC3 _onexit dllcrt1.c:183
> _onexit_t _onexit(
> _onexit_t pfn = &0x00a7a110
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This happened when I was using the libpq.dll from the official binary
> distribution of PostgreSQL 8.1.2. When I compiled libpq.dll myself to
> find out more, amazingly everything worked fine, there was no exception.
> I compiled with nls enabled and without, both works. Only the dll which
> comes with the Win installer causes the problem. Any ideas what could be
> the problem here?

Wow, that is strange. Guess we will just wait for someone else to see
the failure if you can not reproduce it. Thanks for trying.

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