Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joel Burton" <joel(at)joelburton(dot)com>
Cc: "mlw" <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports
Date: 2002-05-05 14:44:03
Message-ID: 7220.1020609843@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joel Burton" <joel(at)joelburton(dot)com> writes:
> Would this have the benefit of allow PostgreSQL to work properly in BSD
> jails, since lack of really working SysV IPC was the problem there?
>>
>> Was the problem just with semas, or was shmem an issue too?

> Not sure -- doesn't get far enough for me to tell. initdb dies with:

> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1...
> IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed:
> Function not implemented

We create shared memory before semaphores, so if you got this far then
the shmem code is probably working (at least minimally).

Do you have working sem_open or sem_init (ie, POSIX semaphores)?

regards, tom lane

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