Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows

On Tuesday, July 14, 2009, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> > Tsutomu Yamada wrote:
>> >> This patch using VirtualAlloc()/VirtualFree() to avoid failing in
>> >> reattach to shared memory.
>>
>> > Since this fixes a very annoying bug present in older versions, I think
>> > this should be backpatched all the way back to 8.2.
>>
>> Agreed, but first we need some evidence that it actually fixes the
>> problem.  How can we acquire such evidence?
>
> Send the patch to the people who has reported trouble and see if it
> seems gone?  If somebody is able to build patched Win32 packages I could
> point a couple of guys in the spanish list to them.

I built a version which a guy is currently testing. He could reproduce
the bug easily, but last i heard, the patch was looking good.

Don't have the details here tho.

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