Hi,
I've installed PostgreSQL 8.1-beta2 as a service on my Windows-XP box.
It runs fine but I get repeated messages like this in the log:
2005-09-29 00:41:09 FATAL: could not duplicate socket 1880 for use
in backend: error code 10038
and for each message printed, a new postgres process is created. To make
things worse, those processes do not die when I stop the service.
I use sysinternals tcpview to monitor my sockets. I know that no other
process is using 1880. Each started postgres process will occupy two,
seemingly random ports that apparently form a loop somehow. This is a
typical entry:
<non-existent>:3136 TCP 127.0.0.1:1554 127.0.0.1:1555 ESTABLISHED
<non-existent>:3136 TCP 127.0.0.1:1555 127.0.0.1:1554 ESTABLISHED
The weird thing is that there is no process with pid 3136 (hence the
name <non-existent>). There is a postgres process with another pid in my
process listing. If I kill that, the <non-existstent> entries go away.
Looks like pid 3136 is talking to itself. A pipe() followed by failure
to start the new process perhaps?
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
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