On Windows, retry process creation if we fail to reserve shared memory.
We've heard occasional reports of backend launch failing because
pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion() fails, indicating that something
has already used that address space in the child process. It's not
very clear what, given that we disable ASLR in Windows builds, but
suspicion falls on antivirus products. It'd be better if we didn't
have to disable ASLR, anyway. So let's try to ameliorate the problem
by retrying the process launch after such a failure, up to 100 times.
Patch by me, based on previous work by Amit Kapila and others.
This is a longstanding issue, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+R6hSx6t_yvwtx+NRzneVp+MRqXAdGJZChcau8Uij-8g@mail.gmail.com
Branch
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REL9_2_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a4a590ee7913eb60e1832d64e73a81b394dd542c
Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)