Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improved parallel make support

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improved parallel make support
Date: 2010-11-13 18:07:42
Message-ID: 1289671662.13321.9.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On lör, 2010-11-13 at 12:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > On lör, 2010-11-13 at 11:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It looks like all the unhappy critters are getting the same "virtual
> >> memory exhausted" error. I wonder whether they are all using make
> >> 3.80 ...
>
> > It turns out that there is an unrelated bug in 3.80 that some Linux
> > distributions have patched around. 3.81 or 3.82 are OK.
>
> So what do you mean by "unrelated bug"? Can we work around it?

The information is fuzzy, but the problem has been reported around the
internet, and it appears to be related to the foreach function. I think
I have an idea how to work around it, but I'll need some time.

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