[HACKERS] bad posix_fadvise support causes initdb to exit ungracefully

2011-06-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
Due to unfortunate environmental conditions (don't ask) I've been trying to get postgres 9.0 up and running on a fairly ancient linux -- redhat EL 3 which as kernel 2.4.21. initdb borks on the create database step with the error message child process exited with error code 139. A bit of tracing

Re: [HACKERS] bad posix_fadvise support causes initdb to exit ungracefully

2011-06-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com wrote: Due to unfortunate environmental conditions (don't ask) I've been trying to get postgres 9.0 up and running on a fairly ancient linux -- redhat EL 3 which as kernel 2.4.21.   initdb borks on the create database step

Re: [HACKERS] bad posix_fadvise support causes initdb to exit ungracefully

2011-06-15 Thread PostgreSQL - Hans-Jürgen Schönig
hello ... 2.4? we know that some versions of 2.4 cause problems due to broken posix_fadvise. if i remember correctly we built some configure magic into PostgreSQL to check for this bug. what does this check do? many thanks, hans On Jun 15, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Merlin

Re: [HACKERS] bad posix_fadvise support causes initdb to exit ungracefully

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 15 June 2011 17:12, Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com wrote: Due to unfortunate environmental conditions (don't ask) I've been trying to get postgres 9.0 up and running on a fairly ancient linux -- redhat EL 3 which as kernel 2.4.21.   initdb borks on the create database step with the error

Re: [HACKERS] bad posix_fadvise support causes initdb to exit ungracefully

2011-06-15 Thread Tom Lane
Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com writes: Due to unfortunate environmental conditions (don't ask) I've been trying to get postgres 9.0 up and running on a fairly ancient linux -- redhat EL 3 which as kernel 2.4.21. initdb borks on the create database step with the error message child process

Re: [HACKERS] bad posix_fadvise support causes initdb to exit ungracefully

2011-06-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
2011/6/15 PostgreSQL - Hans-Jürgen Schönig postg...@cybertec.at: hello ... 2.4? we know that some versions of 2.4 cause problems due to broken posix_fadvise. if i remember correctly we built some configure magic into PostgreSQL to check for this bug. what does this check do? It doesn't