Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

2015-08-24 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 04:32:19PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > > That's the problem. initdb tests how many connections can start up > when writing the default config. But we assume that each process can > use up to the rlimit file descriptors without running into a > system-wide limit. That sounds

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

2014-07-17 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 07:47:28AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > Well, I have to ask this question: why should there be any "vax-specific > > code"? What facilities beyond what POSIX with the threading e

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

2014-07-17 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:50:47AM -0700, Greg Stark wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > > Well, the fact that initdb didn't produce a working configuration and > > that make installcheck failed to work properly are bad. But, yeah, > > it's not totally broken. > > Yea

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL, NetBSD and NFS

2003-02-06 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
n't believe that it was ever the case for any Net2 or 4.4-derived system. > Or it could be a similar bug on the NFS server's side? That's concievable. Of course, a client bug is quite possible, as well, but I don't think the mechanism you suggest is likely. -- Thor Lancelot

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL, NetBSD and NFS

2003-02-06 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:45:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Thor Lancelot Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Unless NetBSD has changed from its heritage, the kernel disk cache > >> buffers are 8K, and so an 8K NFS read or write would never cross a > >> c