On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 13:41, Magnus Hagander<mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 17:05, Magnus Hagander<mag...@hagander.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?
Backpatched to 8.3 and 8.4 for now. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
