Re: Upgrading 9.0 to 9.3 - permission denied to pg_upgrade_utility.log

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Russell Keane wrote:
> > The upgrade works all the way up until the final hurdle where, in the
> > pg_upgrade_utility.log the following statement appears:
> >
> > command: ""C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin/initdb"
> > --sync-only "D:\ PostgreSQL\9.3\Data" >> "pg_upgrade_utility.log" 2>&1"
> >
> > syncing data to disk ... initdb: could not open file
> > "D:/PostgreSQL/9.3/Data/
> > pg_upgrade_utility.log": Permission denied
>
> Uh, it would appear you are running pg_upgrade from _inside_ the 9.3 data directory. That should work, but it would probably be better to run it in another directory where you also have write permission. I think the problem is that initdb --sync-only is syncing those files to disk as you are writing to the log file.
>
> We have had Windows problems of two processes writing to the same file, but that is usually a different error message, e.g.
>
> * For some reason, Windows issues a file-in-use error if we write data to
> * the log file from a non-primary thread just before we create a
> * subprocess that also writes to the same log file. One fix is to sleep
> * for 100ms. A cleaner fix is to write to the log file _after_ the
> * subprocess has completed, so we do this only when writing from a
> * non-primary thread. fflush(), running system() twice, and pre-creating
> * the file do not see to help.
>
> I think that returns a "share violation" error.

I have applied the attached patch for 9.5 which will generate a clearer
error in this case, attached.

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