Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

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I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Thomas Baden wrote:
> Hi there.  My install was failing the regression tests
> due to a shared memory error.
>
> I'm running Solaris 5.8, YASSP, and I am using the Sun
> Forte 7 compiler suite generating 64-bit code.
>
> I did some digging around, and it turns out that the
> IpcMemoryKey is a 64-bit number.  The source code uses
> uint32.  Changing this to a size_t fixes the problem
> under Solaris.  I don't know whether this would break
> other systems.  Anyway, here's the fix:
>
> I don't have the GNU diff, so please forgive the
> crudeness of the following.
>
> in file postgresql-7.4/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c,
> lines 42-48:
>   IpcMemoryKey UsedShmemSegID = 0;
>   void     *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
>
> - static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey
> memKey, uint32 size);
> + static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey
> memKey, size_t size);
>   static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum
> shmaddr);
>   static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum
> shmId);
>   static PGShmemHeader
> *PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryKey key,
>
> in file postgresql-7.4/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c,
> lines 62-68:
>    * print out an error and abort.  Other types of
> errors are not recoverable.
>    */
>   static void *
> - InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, uint32
> size)
> + InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, size_t
> size)
>   {
>         IpcMemoryId shmid;
>         void       *memAddress;
>
> in file postgresql-7.4/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c,
> lines 234-240:
>    * zero will be passed.
>    */
>   PGShmemHeader *
> - PGSharedMemoryCreate(uint32 size, bool makePrivate,
> int port)
> + PGSharedMemoryCreate(size_t size, bool makePrivate,
> int port)
>   {
>         IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
>         void       *memAddress;
>
> in file postgresql-7.4/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h,
> lines 24-30:
>   #ifndef PG_SHMEM_H
>   #define PG_SHMEM_H
>
> - typedef uint32 IpcMemoryKey;  /* shared memory key
> passed to shmget(2) */
> + typedef size_t IpcMemoryKey;  /* shared memory key
> passed to shmget(2) */
>
>   typedef struct PGShmemHeader  /* standard header for
> all Postgres shmem */
>   {
>
> in file postgresql-7.4/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h,
> lines 41-47:
>   extern void *UsedShmemSegAddr;
>   #endif
>
> - extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(uint32
> size, bool makePrivate,
> + extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(size_t
> size, bool makePrivate,
>                                          int port);
>   extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1,
> unsigned long id2);
>   extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
>
> Cheers,
> -Thomas
>
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