Jan Wieck wrote: > Christopher Browne wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elein) writes: > >> What is the status of CVS head? Isn't it in sync with 7.4.RC2? I > >> just upgraded from CVS and rebuilt clean and initdb now gives this > >> lovely informative initdb failed message. > > > > No, I believe that they have started applying 7.5 patches, notably > > including reimplementing initdb in C. > > > > Jan checked in the ARC changes last night, and he and Tom ran into > > some problems, leading to that being pulled back out, while he > > revisits the code. > > Yeah, there was a problem with *extreme* sharing ... the code tried to > use the same buffer for multiple disk blocks at the same time, and > somehow the backends did not agree on the correct content. But it's > fixed and back in. You can see ARC working by setting > > buffer_strategy_status_interval = 10 # seconds > > and starting postmaster with -d1
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