Add a failure check for syslogger's use of _beginthreadex(), and remove

unnecessary thread address output parameter, to make this code look more
like that in pg_restore.

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c b/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c
index df05b88295160e618824361292ee5afa923480b5..5c9eb1654f794c9b0f1cc8f798aaafe42bef989c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c,v 1.47 2009/01/01 17:23:46 momjian Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c,v 1.48 2009/02/03 00:59:26 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -267,11 +267,9 @@ SysLoggerMain(int argc, char *argv[])
    /* Fire up separate data transfer thread */
    InitializeCriticalSection(&sysfileSection);
 
-   {
-       unsigned int tid;
-
-       threadHandle = (HANDLE) _beginthreadex(0, 0, pipeThread, 0, 0, &tid);
-   }
+   threadHandle = (HANDLE) _beginthreadex(NULL, 0, pipeThread, NULL, 0, NULL);
+   if (threadHandle == 0)
+       elog(FATAL, "could not create syslogger data transfer thread: %m");
 #endif   /* WIN32 */
 
    /* remember active logfile parameters */