On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:34:18 +0200 Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Did you try setting the service to "delayed start"? We didn't try it yet. Thanks to give an idea. I think that MS would advise us already if it were a just solution for this case. Anyway, we will try and confirm it. Thanks, Takatsuka Haruka > TAKATSUKA Haruka schrieb am 29.06.2018 um 08:03: > > I got a trouble in PostgreSQL 9.3.x on Windows 10. > > I would like to add new delay code as an official build option. > > > > Windows 10 sometime (approximately once in 300 tries) hung up > > at OS starting up. The logs say it happened while the PostgreSQL > > service was starting. When OS stopped, some postgres auxiliary > > process were started and some were not started yet. > > > > The Windows dump say some threads of the postgres auxiliary process > > are waiting OS level locks and the logon processes’thread are > > also waiting a lock. MS help desk said that PostgreSQL’s OS level > > deadlock caused OS freeze. I think it is strange story. But, > > in fact, it not happened in repeated tests when I got rid of > > PostgreSQL from the initial auto-starting services. > > > > I tweaked PostgreSQL 9.3.x (the newest from the repository) to add > > 0.5 or 3.0 seconds delay after each sub process starts. > > And then the hung up was gone. This test patch is attached. > > It is only implemented for Windows. Also, I did not use existing > > pg_usleep because it contains locking codes (e.g. WaitForSingleObject > > and Enter/LeaveCriticalSection). > > > > Although Windows OS may have some problems, I think we should have > > a means to avoid it. Can PostgreSQL be accepted such delay codes > > as build-time options by preprocessor variables?