Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Krennmair <netnews(at)synflood(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta1 and diet libc
Date: 2004-08-20 01:10:30
Message-ID: 14562.1092964230@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Andreas Krennmair <netnews(at)synflood(dot)at> writes:
> The first fix is that PostgreSQL relies on that, when reading the output
> of postgres -V, all the output can be read with a single read call (or
> whatever call is used, it comes down to read(2) in the end) when called
> from initdb.

Hmm. This is a fair point. Shouldn't pipe_read_line() loop until it's
detected EOF? I'm willing to fix the Unix half of it but I dunno about
the Windows half.

> The other modifications in src/timezone/data/europe are a quick fix
> because I got the error message "line too long" when trying to do a make
> install.

Can you say where that error message is coming from? Because I'd say
that we should fix the limitation, not kluge the data files ...

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Robert Treat 2004-08-20 01:34:31 Re: All three packages ...
Previous Message Mischa Sandberg 2004-08-20 00:43:25 PG replic refs