Re: docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.html needs updating for NetBSD

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel(at)libera(dot)cc>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, mbalmer(at)NetBSD(dot)org
Subject: Re: docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.html needs updating for NetBSD
Date: 2011-11-30 15:31:52
Message-ID: 11501.1322667112@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel(at)libera(dot)cc> writes:
> The NetBSD paragraph about setting the amount of shared memory for
> NetBSD in
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.html is outdated.

> Since NetBSD 5.0 the shared memory size settings can be changed via the
> sysctl interface.

Thanks for the info. I gather from
http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/sysctl.7.html
that it's still necessary to make sure that SysV IPC code is compiled
into the kernel at all --- should we retain the first sentence that
mentions that, or do you think it's unnecessary?

regards, tom lane

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