Re: gettimeofday cause crash on Windows

On 2015-02-12 04:48:00 -0800, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I didn't follow much the thread implementing this feature, but this
> commit has somewhat not taken into account the fact that the contents
> of src/port could as well be used for the frontends, per se the
> comments on top of init_win32_gettimeofday mentioning only the backend
> startup, something not wrong in itself, but not completely right
> either. So what we have now is an unpleasant crash trigger for any
> client applications on Windows < 2k12 linking to libpqport that call
> gettimeofday(). I would not be surprised that we would get bug reports
> of the type "why my client binary crashes suddendly with 9.5" if we
> keep the code as-is.

> So ISTM that your patch does the correct thing by setting
> pg_get_system_time to &GetSystemTimeAsFileTime to not break any
> existing applications, and that we should as well update any in-core
> binary tools to switch to the precise API

I think I'd rather have it crash so people are forced to adjust the
client applications. The number of things linking to pgport should be
rather low.

Greetings,

Andres Freund