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

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 17:05, Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> Dave has built binaries for 8.3.7 and 8.4.0 for this, available at:
>
> http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/postgres_exe_virtualalloc-8_3.zip
> http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/postgres_exe_virtualalloc-8_4.zip
>
>
> We would like as many people as possible to test this both on systems
> that currently experience the problem and systems that don't, and let
> us know the status. To test, just replace your current postgres.exe
> binary with the one in the appropriate ZIP file above. Obviously, take
> a backup before you do it! These binaries contain just this one patch
> - the rest of what's been applied to the 8.3 and 8.4 branches for the
> next minor version is *not* included.

It's been a couple of weeks now, and I've had a number of reports both
on-list, on-blog and in private, from people using this. I have not
yet had a single report of a problem caused by this patch (not
counting the case where there was a version mismatch - can't fault the
patch for that).

Given that, I say we apply this for 8.3 and 8.4 now. Comments?

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