Claudio, I need this completed so we can get it into CVS. Without it a
8.0.0 version string will fail to compare.
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Claudio Natoli wrote:
>
> Hi Merlin,
>
> > On a probably unrelated note:
> > Can some other win32 hacker try the following?
> > Download the latest cvs sources from the server and edit configure,
> > replacing all instances of '8.0beta5' with '8.0' etc. as is
> > will be when released. Following that do a full make/make clean. After
> > that try and start he server with pg_ctl.exe and tell me if it succeeds or
> not.
>
> I can confirm this failure.
>
> (in my case at least) pg_ctl is not seeing the full version string of the
> postmaster in find_other_exec. This is due to the single call to ReadFile in
> pipe_read_line, which is not returning the entire version string (losing all
> characters beyond the last decimal point in the version string). A
> subsequent call to ReadFile picks up the remainder of the string. I don't
> see that we can rely on a single call returning the entire version string.
>
> If someone can run with this, I've attached initial looping changes for
> pipe_read_line. However I'm not sure of the correct terminating condition
> (gets into a call to ReadFile that never returns; the WaitForSingleObject
> appears insufficient as a precondition for ReadFile) and just don't have
> time to complete it right now.
>
> Cheers,
> Claudio
>
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