Re: apparent scheduler problem

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew at dunslane dot net>]

Brian Ford wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Recently after upgrading my installation of Cygwin on XP-Pro, I noticed
> > that PostgreSQL started failing one of its regression tests.
> >    
> [snip]
>  
>
> > The test is for the stats collector, and essentially it does some
> > work, waits a couple of seconds in a fairly brain dead busy/wait loop,
> > and then checks to see if the stats collector has done the work we
> > expect it to have done.
> >    
> [snip]
>  
>
> > We are wondering if anything is known to have changed in Cygwin recently
> > that could account for this.
> >    
>
> Sounds to me like yet another case of
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html
>  

That's remarkably ugly :-)  Two of us have confirmed that using the 
latest snapshot DLL fixes the problem for Postgres. When might the fix 
make it into a release?

cheers

andrew

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