On 09/29/2018 12:09 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:


On 09/29/2018 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Most of the buildfarm is now happy with the changes I made to have
libpq + ecpg get src/port and src/common files via libraries ...
but lorikeet isn't.  It gets through the core regression tests fine
(so libpq, per se, works), but contrib/dblink fails:

! ERROR:  could not establish connection
! DETAIL:  libpq is incorrectly linked to backend functions

What this means is that libpq is calling the backend version of
src/common/link-canary.c rather than the frontend version.
Why would it do the right thing normally and the wrong thing in dblink?

I can think of a few theories but I lack the ability to investigate:

1. Maybe the dblink.dll build is pulling in libpq.a rather than
establishing a reference to libpq.dll.  If so, the wrong things would
happen because libpq.a won't contain the src/common/ files that
libpq needs.  (It seems like libpq.a is an active hazard given
this.  Why are we building it at all?)

2. Maybe we need a --version-script option or something equivalent
to get libpq.dll's references to be preferentially resolved internally
rather than to the backend.  But this doesn't really explain why it
worked properly before.





I will see if I can determine if 1) is the cause. I don't know enough, or in fact anything, about 2), so don;t know that I can help there without advice.





It certainly looks like it's not linked to libpq.dll:

   Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.15.26726.0
   Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.


   Dump of file
   \cygwin64\home\andrew\\bf64\root\HEAD\inst\lib\postgresql\dblink.dll

   File Type: DLL

      Image has the following dependencies:

        postgres.exe
        cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll
        cygwin1.dll
        cygssl-1.0.0.dll
        KERNEL32.dll


I'll build an earlier version to do a comparison just to make sure we're seeing the right thing.


cheers

andrew

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