On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:35, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... and if so, isn't postmaster.c's code to transfer a HANDLE value to a
>> child process all wet?
>
> It is definitely 64-bit. sizeof(HANDLE)==8.
>
> So yes, it looks completely broken. I guess Windows doesn't actually
> *assign* you a handle larger than 2^32 until you actually ahve that
> many open handles. Typical values on my test system (win64) comes out
> at around 4000 in all tests.
>
>
>> BTW, it seems like it'd be a good thing if we had a Win64 machine in the
>> buildfarm.
>
> Yes. I actually thought we had one. Dave, weren't you going to set one up?

I was, but I saw one there so didn't bother (hamerkop). Windows
buildfarm critters can take a surprising amount of herding...


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