Re: logical replication launcher crash on buildfarm

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: logical replication launcher crash on buildfarm
Date: 2017-03-17 03:24:07
Message-ID: 4d126046-3eee-b87c-b0e4-9506dae249db@2ndquadrant.com
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On 3/16/17 14:55, Andres Freund wrote:
> I indeed think that's the right consequence. One question is what to
> replace it with exactly - are we guaranteed we can dynamically lookup
> symbols by name in the main binary on every platform?

I think there is probably a way to do this on all platforms. But it
seems that at least the Windows port of pg_dlopen would need to be
updated to support this.

> Alternatively we
> can just hardcode a bunch of bgw_function_name values that are matched
> to specific functions if bgw_library_name is NULL - I suspect that'd be
> the easiest / least worrysome portability-wise.

Basically a variant of fmgrtab, which addresses the same sort of problem.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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