Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8

From: Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Baden <lindysandiego(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8
Date: 2003-12-01 22:42:19
Message-ID: 20031201224219.GA15707@ping.be
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:19:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Baden <lindysandiego(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > Hi there. My install was failing the regression tests
> > due to a shared memory error.
>
> After reviewing the proposed patch, I find it hard to believe that the
> patch would have fixed any such problem --- even if key_t is 64 bits
> on your system, the code should still have worked, because we'd never
> have selected a key value wider than 32 bits anyway. What *exact*
> misbehavior were you seeing?

It's not the key (key_t) that is the problem, but the size, which
used to be int but got replaced by a size_t.

Kurt

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