On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 16:30, Magnus Hagander<mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:33, Magnus Hagander<mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:58, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:10, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>>>> 8.2 as well, no? >>> >>>> 8.2 has a different shmem implementation - the one that emulates sysv >>>> shmem. The patch will need to be changed around for that, and I >>>> haven't looked at that. It may be worthwhile to do that, but it's a >>>> separate patch, so let's get it out in 8.3 and 8.4 first. >>> >>> If it's at all hard to do, I could see deprecating 8.2 for Windows >>> instead. >> >> I haven't looked at how much work it would be at all yet. So let's do >> that before we decide to deprecate anything. As mentioned downthread, >> 8.2 is a very widespread release, and we really want to avoid >> deprecating it. > > Here's an attempt at a backport to 8.2. I haven't examined it in > detail, but it passes "make check" on mingw. > > Comments?
I've also built a binary that should be copy:able on top of an 8.2.13 installation made from the standard installer, to test this feature. Anybody on 8.2 on Windows, please give it a shot and let us know how it works. http://www.hagander.net/pgsql/postgres_exe_virtualalloc_8_2.zip -- 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
