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Re: apparent scheduler problem
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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