Re: [HACKERS] postmaster failure with 2-23 snapshot

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Is there any way (sysctl?) of determining the max # of semaphores
> > configured into a system?
> >
> > I just looked at a sys/sysconfig.h under Solaris, and it appears they have
> > an "undocumented function" that does this...but I can't seem to find
> > anything right off...
> >
> > For that matter, being able to do a configure check to see if semaphores
> > are even compiled into the system or not (ala FreeBSD) might be nice
> > too...
>
> None of the commercial db's do that, so I assume there is no portable
> way. We will lower the limit so it will pass most/all kernels, and help
> people who need to up it. Perhaps an FAQ for kernels.

None of the commercial db's use configure and source code :)

Even if its a header file that we can check for a default setting?

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org