| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Long paths for tablespace leads to uninterruptible hang in Windows |
| Date: | 2014-02-16 13:42:29 |
| Message-ID: | 5300C045.3080106@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 02/14/2014 10:57 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:33:33PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> Further update on this issue:
>>
>> Microsoft has suggested a workaround for stat API. Their suggestion
>> is to use 'GetFileAttributesEx' instead of stat, when I tried their
>> suggestion, it also gives me same problem as stat.
>>
>> Still they have not told anything about other API's
>> (rmdir, RemoveDirectory) which has same problem.
>
> Where are we on this? Is there a check we should add in our code?
This is fascinating - I spent some time chasing the same symptoms in my
Jenkins build slave, and eventually tracked it down to path lengths. gcc
was just hanging uninterruptibly in a win32 syscall, and nothing short
of a reboot would deal with it.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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