Re: Win32 hard crash problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>>> Fail in what way. Hang, not connect, or get an error msg?
>
>> Just verified with customer. Once the problem occurs the first time, the
>> customer will continually get the same error message for each subsequent
>> connection attempt:
>
>> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
>
> During the connection attempt? I don't think libpq can report that
> message until it tries to do a regular query (might be wrong though).
> Is the client using some application that's going to issue a query
> immediately on connecting?

Well, windows ;) Customer says that they double click pgadmin and they
get that message. I have informed them on how to increase to debug5 and
hopefully we get something from that, of course it will likely be 24.85
days from now ;)

>
> It would be useful to turn on log_connections and log_statement (and
> perhaps crank log_min_messages all the way up to DEBUG5) to see if we
> can get anything in the postmaster log giving a hint what actually
> happens here. A TCP sniff of the connection attempt traffic would be
> pretty useful too.
>

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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