Print meaningfull error text for abonormal process exit on Win32, rather

than hex codes, using FormatMessage().

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 4111b87f1f4d9fa992e3c4211c059a1e3c936b05..7e18251a583fb0cae711f183e21cf998e200bf14 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.510 2007/01/22 19:38:05 momjian Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.511 2007/01/23 01:45:11 momjian Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -2430,14 +2430,30 @@ LogChildExit(int lev, const char *procname, int pid, int exitstatus)
                                (errmsg("%s (PID %d) was terminated by signal %d",
                                                procname, pid, WTERMSIG(exitstatus))));
 #else
-               ereport(lev,
+       {
+               static char last_system_error[512];
+
+               if (WERRORCODE(exitstatus) == 0 ||
+                       FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS |
+                                                 FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
+                                                 NULL,
+                                                 WERRORCODE(exitstatus),
+                                                 MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
+                                                 last_system_error,
+                                                 sizeof(last_system_error) - 1,
+                                                 NULL) == 0)
+                       snprintf(last_system_error, sizeof(last_system_error) - 1,
+                                        "Unknown error %X.", WEXITSTATUS(exitstatus));
 
+               ereport(lev,
+       
                /*------
                  translator: %s is a noun phrase describing a child process, such as
                  "server process" */
-                               (errmsg("%s (PID %d) was terminated by exception %X",
-                                               procname, pid, WTERMSIG(exitstatus)),
-                                errhint("See http://source.winehq.org/source/include/ntstatus.h for a description of the hex value.")));
+                               (errmsg("%s (PID %d) was terminated by the operating system",
+                                               procname, pid),
+                                errdetail("%s", last_system_error)));
+       }
 #endif
        else
                ereport(lev,

diff --git a/src/include/port/win32.h b/src/include/port/win32.h
index f88ef11a548d4e1dbd731c79873e5ee9c5c8234f..ef515fd48b333420bda43ecaa756eae076a0bd8d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/port/win32.h
+++ b/src/include/port/win32.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/port/win32.h,v 1.67 2007/01/22 18:32:57 momjian Exp $ */
+/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/port/win32.h,v 1.68 2007/01/23 01:45:11 momjian Exp $ */
 
 #if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__BORLANDC__)
 #define WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER
@@ -140,13 +140,26 @@ int                       semop(int semId, struct sembuf * sops, int flag);
  *             Descriptions - http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wuyongzh/my_doc/ntstatus.txt
  *             MS SDK - http://www.nologs.com/ntstatus.html
  *
- *     Some day we might want to print descriptions for the most common
- *     exceptions, rather than printing a URL.
+ *     Because FormatMessage only handles NT_ERROR strings, and assumes they
+ *     do not have the 0xC prefix, we strip it to match this list:
+ *             http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681381.aspx
+ *
+ *     When using FormatMessage():
+ *
+ *     On MinGW, system() returns STATUS_* values.  MSVC might be
+ *     different.  To test, create a binary that does *(NULL), and
+ *     then create a second binary that calls it via system(),
+ *     and check the return value of system().  On MinGW, it is
+ *     0xC0000005 == STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, and 0x5 is a value
+ *     FormatMessage() can look up.  GetLastError() does not work;
+ *     always zero.
  */
-#define WIFEXITED(w)    (((w) & 0XFFFFFF00) == 0)
-#define WIFSIGNALED(w)  (!WIFEXITED(w))
-#define WEXITSTATUS(w)  (w)
-#define WTERMSIG(w)     (w)
+#define STATUS_ERROR_MASK      0xC0000000
+#define WIFEXITED(w)           (((w) & 0XFFFFFF00) == 0)
+#define WIFSIGNALED(w)         (!WIFEXITED(w))
+#define WEXITSTATUS(w)         (w)
+#define WERRORCODE(w)          ((((w) & STATUS_ERROR_MASK) == STATUS_ERROR_MASK) ? \
+                                                       ((w) & ~STATUS_ERROR_MASK) : 0)
 
 #define sigmask(sig) ( 1 << ((sig)-1) )
 

diff --git a/src/port/exec.c b/src/port/exec.c
index 4d54ed0e589aeaa26974445163a819c3cb0462d8..0ed4b59014bb732301a917fd47aed981b7f3d8fd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/port/exec.c
+++ b/src/port/exec.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/exec.c,v 1.45 2007/01/22 18:31:51 momjian Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/exec.c,v 1.46 2007/01/23 01:45:11 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -586,8 +586,24 @@ pclose_check(FILE *stream)
                log_error(_("child process was terminated by signal %d"),
                                  WTERMSIG(exitstatus));
 #else
-               log_error(_("child process was terminated by exception %X\nSee http://source.winehq.org/source/include/ntstatus.h for a description\nof the hex value."),
-                                 WTERMSIG(exitstatus));
+       {
+               static char last_system_error[512];
+
+               if (WERRORCODE(exitstatus) == 0 ||
+                       FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS |
+                                                 FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
+                                                 NULL,
+                                                 WERRORCODE(exitstatus),
+                                                 MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
+                                                 last_system_error,
+                                                 sizeof(last_system_error) - 1,
+                                                 NULL) == 0)
+                       snprintf(last_system_error, sizeof(last_system_error) - 1,
+                                        "Unknown error %X.", WEXITSTATUS(exitstatus));
+
+               log_error(_("child process was terminated by the operating system\n%s"),
+                                 last_system_error);
+       }
 #endif
        else
                log_error(_("child process exited with unrecognized status %d"),