Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> Something committed in about the last 24 hours or so has caused my
>> Windows buildfarm members to hang completely while running the
>> regression tests. It's happened for both MinGW and MSVC builds.
>>
>
> baiji and dawn_bat are both green now, so apparently Stefan was correct
> to guess that the array indexing bug in psql/print.c was the problem.
> I don't understand, however, how that manifested as a hang and not
> a core dump. Does Windows not treat bogus pointer dereference the
> same as everyone else does?
>
>
>
Yes, it does. What hung apparently was the Dr Watson error reporting
tool. I think I've disabled it for everything but the OS now.
cheers
andrew