Re: [HACKERS] ipc-daemon

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Richard Pais <chris_pais(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ipc-daemon
Date: 2002-11-17 01:11:28
Message-ID: 200211170111.gAH1BS900603@candle.pha.pa.us
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We normally don't go into that much detail in the FAQ unless someone is
seeing that problem case a lot.

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Richard Pais wrote:
>
> Just an explanation in the FAQ that the ipc-daemon is not running won't suffice. Because in my case I had ipc-daemon (version 1.11) running and it still hung (Jason's patch reported the IpcMemoryCreate error). Only when I downgraded to version 1.09 (office) and upgraded to 1.13 (home) did initdb succeed. So I'd suggest also covering this scenario.
> Thanks,
> Richard
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> At least that is an FAQ item.
>
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>
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Tom,
> > Peter,
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:43:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > If you can detect that cygipc is not running, then ENOSYS seems the
> > > > best choice for reporting that. (ENOSPC would be misleading too.)
> > >
> > > Thanks for your feedback. I will take this to the Cygwin list and see
> > > what happens.
> >
> > I happy to report that the above has been accomplished:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-11/msg00025.html
> >
> > Hopefully, the Cygwin initdb and postmaster hang posts will be a thing
> > of the past. Unfortunately, they probably will be replaced by questions
> > like:
> >
> > Why does initdb fail with "IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(...) failed:
> > Function not implemented?"
> >
> > Jason
> >
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