On 2014-04-08 15:45:39 +0000, Robert Haas wrote:
> Get rid of the dynamic shared memory state file.
> 
> Instead of storing the ID of the dynamic shared memory control
> segment in a file within the data directory, store it in the main
> control segment.  This avoids a number of nasty corner cases,
> most seriously that doing an online backup and then using it on
> the same machine (e.g. to fire up a standby) would result in the
> standby clobbering all of the master's dynamic shared memory
> segments.
> 
> Per complaints from Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, and Tom
> Lane.

Looks like it's not working for windows yet:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=bowerbird&dt=2014-04-08%2016%3A31%3A18
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=baiji&dt=2014-04-08%2017%3A00%3A01

There's also the to_reg* commit in the ones tested by those runs, but it
sounds unlikely that those would trigger during initdb.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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