On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:13:20PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > Since, as has been previously discussed in this forum on multiple > occasions [citation needed], the default System V shared memory limits > are absurdly low on many systems, the dynamic shared memory patch > defaults to POSIX shared memory, which has often been touted as a > superior alternative [citation needed]. Unfortunately, the buildfarm > isn't entirely happy with this decision. On buildfarm member anole > (HP-UX B.11.31), allocation of dynamic shared memory fails with a > "Permission denied" error, and on smew (Debian GNU/Linux 6.0), it > fails with "Function not implemented", which according to a forum > post[1] I found probably indicates that /dev/shm doesn't mount a tmpfs > on that box. > > What shall we do about this? I see a few options. > > (1) Define the issue as "not our problem". IOW, as of now, if you > want to use PostgreSQL, you've got to either make POSIX shared memory > work on your machine, or change the GUC that selects the type of > dynamic shared memory used.
+1 for this. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers