Re: cvs head? initdb?

Christopher Browne wrote:

> elein(at)varlena(dot)com (elein) writes:
>> What is the status of CVS head? Isn't it in sync with 7.4.RC2? I
>> just upgraded from CVS and rebuilt clean and initdb now gives this
>> lovely informative initdb failed message.
>
> No, I believe that they have started applying 7.5 patches, notably
> including reimplementing initdb in C.
>
> Jan checked in the ARC changes last night, and he and Tom ran into
> some problems, leading to that being pulled back out, while he
> revisits the code.

Yeah, there was a problem with *extreme* sharing ... the code tried to
use the same buffer for multiple disk blocks at the same time, and
somehow the backends did not agree on the correct content. But it's
fixed and back in. You can see ARC working by setting

buffer_strategy_status_interval = 10 # seconds

and starting postmaster with -d1

Jan

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