On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:46:50PM -0500, David Schnur wrote:
> I finally had time to test this further on a variety of systems, and was 
> unable
> to reproduce on any non-Windows platform.  The dump even works fine on Windows
> XP; just not Windows 7.
> 
> This prompted me to do a little more research, and this time I found this
> thread from Sept. 2011:
> 
> http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/
> BUG-6233-pg-dump-hangs-with-Access-Violation-C0000005-td4851598.html
> 
> From Tom Lane in the above thread:
> 
> 
>     Hmm.  I can see how that would happen if you're using one of the Windows 
>     environments wherein malloc's done inside libpq have to be free'd inside 
>     libpq.  (The PQExpBuffer support code is in libpq...) 
> 
>  
> 
>     However, the flaw in that explanation is that it would basically mean 
>     pg_dump doesn't work at all on Windows, at least not if you have any 
>     user-defined functions, and probably some other cases too because there 
>     seem to be multiple instances of the dubious coding.  It's a bit hard to 
>     believe that nobody's noticed that before. 
> 
> 
> This appears to describe exactly the issue I'm encountering, and my build is 
> in
> fact linked against the static runtime.  I guess the reason this hasn't come 
> up
> sooner is because most Windows users either use the 'official' binaries rather
> than compiling from source, or link against the dynamic runtime.
> 
> Is this something I could expect to be fixed in the near future, or is it
> enough of an edge case that I should come up with some solution or work-around
> on my own?  Thanks,

Late reply, but I don't see any way we could fix this easily.

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  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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