Re: BUG #9074: prepared_xacts test freezes

marco.atzeri@gmail.com writes:
> going step by step, the freezing point is:

> -- pxtest3 should be locked because of the pending DROP
> set statement_timeout to 2000;
> SELECT * FROM pxtest3;
> instead of
> --------------------------------
> ERROR:  canceling statement due to statement timeout
> -----------------------------------
> the SELECT never returns.

Something broken in SIGALRM signal handling, seems like.  But in this
case, the code *does* work on older Cygwin versions, so I think it's
incumbent on you to figure out why newer Cygwin is failing.

            regards, tom lane