[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.3.3 on Windows XP Unstable

Mon Aug 11 10:02:27 PDT 2008

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I am trying to use PostGIS 1.3.3 with PostgreSQL 8.3 on Windows XP SP2
and I am having stability problems. 

The first problem I ran into is that calling buffer(the_geom,0) on an
invalid geometry causes the server to crash with a blown assertion
("pts->size() > 1"). This problem was reported here:

    http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/187

The second problem I ran into is a crash when I call st_disjoint() on
certain geometries. I have been unable to get any further information
about this crash because the Visual Studio 2008 debugger refuses to
attach to the crashing process with the message "Invalid security
context". I tried running postgres.exe as a non-service under my own
user ID, but I still received the same error. 

Is PostGIS 1.3.3 known to be very unstable on Windows XP? Might I have
better luck on Linux? I don't have a Linux box available to me atm, so
it would take some effort to test this question.