Hi, I occasionally
Running the ecpg regression tests interactively (to try to find a different issue), triggered a crash on windows due to an uninitialized variable (after pressing "ignore" in that stupid gui window that we've only disabled for the backend). "The variable 'replace_val' is being used without being initialized." Child-SP RetAddr Call Site 000000b3`3bcfe140 00007ff9`03f9cd74 libpgtypes!failwithmessage( void * retaddr = 0x00007ff9`03f96133, int crttype = 0n1, int errnum = 0n3, char * msg = 0x000000b3`3bcff050 "The variable 'replace_val' is being used without being initialized.")+0x234 [d:\a01\_work\12\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\rtc\error.cpp @ 213] 000000b3`3bcff030 00007ff9`03f96133 libpgtypes!_RTC_UninitUse( char * varname = 0x00007ff9`03fa8a90 "replace_val")+0xa4 [d:\a01\_work\12\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\rtc\error.cpp @ 362] 000000b3`3bcff470 00007ff9`03f94acd libpgtypes!dttofmtasc_replace( int64 * ts = 0x000000b3`3bcff778, long dDate = 0n0, int dow = 0n6, struct tm * tm = 0x000000b3`3bcff598, char * output = 0x0000026e`9c223de0 "abc-00:00:00", int * pstr_len = 0x000000b3`3bcff620, char * fmtstr = 0x00007ff7`b01ae5c0 "abc-%X-def-%x-ghi%%")+0xe53 [C:\dev\postgres-meson\src\interfaces\ecpg\pgtypeslib\timestamp.c @ 759] *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\dev\postgres-meson\build-msbuild\src\interfaces\ecpg\test\pgtypeslib\dt_test.exe 000000b3`3bcff550 00007ff7`b01a23c9 libpgtypes!PGTYPEStimestamp_fmt_asc( int64 * ts = 0x000000b3`3bcff778, char * output = 0x0000026e`9c223de0 "abc-00:00:00", int str_len = 0n19, char * fmtstr = 0x00007ff7`b01ae5c0 "abc-%X-def-%x-ghi%%")+0xed [C:\dev\postgres-meson\src\interfaces\ecpg\pgtypeslib\timestamp.c @ 794] 000000b3`3bcff610 00007ff7`b01a4499 dt_test!main(void)+0xe59 [C:\dev\postgres-meson\src\interfaces\ecpg\test\pgtypeslib\dt_test.pgc @ 200] 000000b3`3bcff860 00007ff7`b01a433e dt_test!invoke_main(void)+0x39 [d:\a01\_work\12\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl @ 79] 000000b3`3bcff8b0 00007ff7`b01a41fe dt_test!__scrt_common_main_seh(void)+0x12e [d:\a01\_work\12\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl @ 288] 000000b3`3bcff920 00007ff7`b01a452e dt_test!__scrt_common_main(void)+0xe [d:\a01\_work\12\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl @ 331] 000000b3`3bcff950 00007ff9`1d987034 dt_test!mainCRTStartup( void * __formal = 0x000000b3`3bbe8000)+0xe [d:\a01\_work\12\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_main.cpp @ 17] 000000b3`3bcff980 00007ff9`1f842651 KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x14 000000b3`3bcff9b0 00000000`00000000 ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x21 I haven't analyzed this further. CI also shows ecpg itself occasionally crashing, but I haven't managed to catch it in the act. Greetings, Andres Freund