Re: Patch to add Windows 7 support

Dave Page wrote:
> The attached patch adds support for the Windows 7 beta which we've had
> a few reports of incompatibility with. When we startup using pg_ctl on
> Windows, we create a job object (a logical grouping of processes on
> Windows) to which we apply various security options. One of these
> (JOB_OBJECT_UILIMIT_HANDLES) is used to prevent our processes seeing
> handles belonging to processes outside of our job, however, when we
> run under the service control manager, this causes the postmaster to
> exit immeditately for no apparent reason.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what has change in the SCM to cause this yet
> (Windows 7 documentation is somewhat thin on the ground at the
> moment), but the patch avoids theporblem by only setting
> JOB_OBJECT_UILIMIT_HANDLES on earlier OSs.
>
> Tested on CVS head, but should probably be backpatched to 8.3 to avoid
> more bug reports.

No objections here, but seems we should revisit this after Windows 7 is
released, and revert if they've fixed the underlying problem during the
beta period.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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