Re: dynamic shared memory: wherein I am punished for good intentions

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: dynamic shared memory: wherein I am punished for good intentions
Date: 2013-10-10 23:30:04
Message-ID: 20131010233004.GD3924560@alap2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-10-10 12:13:20 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> and on smew (Debian GNU/Linux 6.0), it
> fails with "Function not implemented", which according to a forum
> post[1] I found probably indicates that /dev/shm doesn't mount a tmpfs
> on that box.

It would be nice to get confirmed what the reason for that is - afaik
debian has mounted /dev/shm for ages. The most likely issue I can see is
an incorrectly setup chroot.
If it's just that I wouldn't be too concerned about it. That's a
scenario that won't happen to many users and relatively easily fixed

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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