Postgres on Windows freezes on start-up with libxml2-2.dll from PostGIS 2.1.0

[realityexists]

PostgreSQL 9.1.4 x64 on Windows 7, installed using the installer

I stopped the PostgreSQL service, copied the binaries from PostGIS 2.1.0 r10170 to the PG bin directory and tried to start the service. It freezes in the "starting" state. I can see in process explorer that pg_ctl is running, but it doesn't have any child processes. This happens every time - I cannot start Postgres.

Eventually I narrowed it down to libxml2-2.dll. PostgreSQL already includes that file (6307 KB) and if I don't replace it with the PostGIS one (1295 KB) then it starts and runs successfully.

[robe]

Thanks for the update. I assume you are using the buildbot version?

I'll make sure to package the one that comes with EDB next time (it's kind of annoying because in the 9.2 they have libxml2.dll again) and in 9.1.4 they have libxml2-2.dll. I must have accidentally put the one that we have from mingw in there and unfortunately for some reason I think they are compiled with different features so PostGIS works happily with the EDB packaged one, but the EDB install does not like the PostGIS one probably because we have minimal features compiled in.

[realityexists]

Yes, the buildbot version. Thanks!

[robe]

Should be fixed in the next build. I changed to package the EDb version instead.