Avoid terminating the postmaster on a number of "can't happen" cases during

backend startup on Win32. Instead, log the error and just forget about
the potentially dangling process, since we can't do anything about it anyway.

src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.585 2009/07/24 20:12:42 mha Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.586 2009/08/06 09:50:22 mha Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -3627,7 +3627,7 @@ internal_forkexec(int argc, char *argv[], Port *port)
 		 * mess with the half-started process
 		 */
 		if (!TerminateProcess(pi.hProcess, 255))
-			ereport(ERROR,
+			ereport(LOG,
 					(errmsg_internal("could not terminate unstarted process: error code %d",
 									 (int) GetLastError())));
 		CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
@@ -3654,7 +3654,7 @@ internal_forkexec(int argc, char *argv[], Port *port)
 		 * process and give up.
 		 */
 		if (!TerminateProcess(pi.hProcess, 255))
-			ereport(ERROR,
+			ereport(LOG,
 					(errmsg_internal("could not terminate process that failed to reserve memory: error code %d",
 									 (int) GetLastError())));
 		CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
@@ -3671,7 +3671,7 @@ internal_forkexec(int argc, char *argv[], Port *port)
 	{
 		if (!TerminateProcess(pi.hProcess, 255))
 		{
-			ereport(ERROR,
+			ereport(LOG,
 					(errmsg_internal("could not terminate unstartable process: error code %d",
 									 (int) GetLastError())));
 			CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
@@ -3680,7 +3680,7 @@ internal_forkexec(int argc, char *argv[], Port *port)
 		}
 		CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
 		CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
-		ereport(ERROR,
+		ereport(LOG,
 				(errmsg_internal("could not resume thread of unstarted process: error code %d",
 								 (int) GetLastError())));
 		return -1;
@@ -4430,8 +4430,8 @@ extern int	pgStatSock;
 #define write_inheritable_socket(dest, src, childpid) (*(dest) = (src))
 #define read_inheritable_socket(dest, src) (*(dest) = *(src))
 #else
-static void write_duplicated_handle(HANDLE *dest, HANDLE src, HANDLE child);
-static void write_inheritable_socket(InheritableSocket *dest, SOCKET src,
+static bool write_duplicated_handle(HANDLE *dest, HANDLE src, HANDLE child);
+static bool write_inheritable_socket(InheritableSocket *dest, SOCKET src,
 						 pid_t childPid);
 static void read_inheritable_socket(SOCKET *dest, InheritableSocket *src);
 #endif
@@ -4448,7 +4448,8 @@ save_backend_variables(BackendParameters *param, Port *port,
 #endif
 {
 	memcpy(&param->port, port, sizeof(Port));
-	write_inheritable_socket(&param->portsocket, port->sock, childPid);
+	if (!write_inheritable_socket(&param->portsocket, port->sock, childPid))
+		return false;
 
 	strlcpy(param->DataDir, DataDir, MAXPGPATH);
 
@@ -4469,7 +4470,8 @@ save_backend_variables(BackendParameters *param, Port *port,
 	param->ProcGlobal = ProcGlobal;
 	param->AuxiliaryProcs = AuxiliaryProcs;
 	param->PMSignalState = PMSignalState;
-	write_inheritable_socket(&param->pgStatSock, pgStatSock, childPid);
+	if (!write_inheritable_socket(&param->pgStatSock, pgStatSock, childPid))
+		return false;
 
 	param->PostmasterPid = PostmasterPid;
 	param->PgStartTime = PgStartTime;
@@ -4479,9 +4481,10 @@ save_backend_variables(BackendParameters *param, Port *port,
 
 #ifdef WIN32
 	param->PostmasterHandle = PostmasterHandle;
-	write_duplicated_handle(&param->initial_signal_pipe,
+	if (!write_duplicated_handle(&param->initial_signal_pipe,
 							pgwin32_create_signal_listener(childPid),
-							childProcess);
+							childProcess))
+		return false;
 #endif
 
 	memcpy(&param->syslogPipe, &syslogPipe, sizeof(syslogPipe));
@@ -4501,7 +4504,7 @@ save_backend_variables(BackendParameters *param, Port *port,
  * Duplicate a handle for usage in a child process, and write the child
  * process instance of the handle to the parameter file.
  */
-static void
+static bool
 write_duplicated_handle(HANDLE *dest, HANDLE src, HANDLE childProcess)
 {
 	HANDLE		hChild = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
@@ -4513,11 +4516,15 @@ write_duplicated_handle(HANDLE *dest, HANDLE src, HANDLE childProcess)
 						 0,
 						 TRUE,
 						 DUPLICATE_CLOSE_SOURCE | DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS))
-		ereport(ERROR,
+	{
+		ereport(LOG,
 				(errmsg_internal("could not duplicate handle to be written to backend parameter file: error code %d",
 								 (int) GetLastError())));
+		return false;
+	}
 
 	*dest = hChild;
+	return true;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4527,7 +4534,7 @@ write_duplicated_handle(HANDLE *dest, HANDLE src, HANDLE childProcess)
  * common on Windows (antivirus, firewalls, download managers etc) break
  * straight socket inheritance.
  */
-static void
+static bool
 write_inheritable_socket(InheritableSocket *dest, SOCKET src, pid_t childpid)
 {
 	dest->origsocket = src;
@@ -4535,10 +4542,14 @@ write_inheritable_socket(InheritableSocket *dest, SOCKET src, pid_t childpid)
 	{
 		/* Actual socket */
 		if (WSADuplicateSocket(src, childpid, &dest->wsainfo) != 0)
-			ereport(ERROR,
+		{
+			ereport(LOG,
 					(errmsg("could not duplicate socket %d for use in backend: error code %d",
 							src, WSAGetLastError())));
+			return false;
+		}
 	}
+	return true;
 }
 
 /*