Re: AIX FAQ Updates - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Patch applied to 8.0.X and HEAD.  Thanks.

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Chris Browne wrote:
> I believe this change will apply equally to 7.4, 8.0, and CVS HEAD.
>
> Index: FAQ_AIX
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> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/FAQ_AIX,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -c -u -r1.11 FAQ_AIX
> --- FAQ_AIX    12 Nov 2002 20:02:32 -0000    1.11
> +++ FAQ_AIX    15 Jul 2005 15:51:10 -0000
> @@ -18,3 +18,79 @@
>  You need libm.a that is in the fileset bos.adt.libm.  (Try the
>  following command.)
>  $ lslpp -l bos.adt.libm
> +
> +
> +---
> +From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info>
> +Date: 2005-07-15
> +
> +On AIX 5.3, there have been some problems getting PostgreSQL to
> +compile and run using GCC.
> +
> +1.  You will want to use a version of GCC subsequent to 3.3.2,
> +    particularly if you use a prepackaged version.  We had good
> +    success with 4.0.1.
> +
> +    Problems with earlier versions seem to have more to do with the
> +    way IBM packaged GCC than with actual issues with GCC, so that if
> +    you compile GCC yourself, you might well have success with an
> +    earlier version of GCC.
> +
> +2.  AIX 5.3 has a problem where sockadr_storage is not defined to be
> +    large enough.  In version 5.3, IBM increased the size of
> +    sockaddr_un, the address structure for UNIX Domain Sockets, but
> +    did not correspondingly increase the size of sockadr_storage.
> +
> +    The result of this is that attempts to use UDS with PostgreSQL
> +    lead to libpq overflowing the data structure.  TCP/IP connections
> +    work OK, but not UDS, which prevents the regression tests from
> +    working.
> +
> +   The nonconformance may be readily demonstrated by compiling and
> +   running the following C program which calculates and compares the
> +   sizes of the various structures:
> +
> +test_size.c
> +------------
> +
> +---------- snip here - test_size.c ----------------------------
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <sys/un.h>
> +#include <sys/socket.h>
> +int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
> +        struct sockaddr_storage a;
> +        struct sockaddr_un b;
> +        printf("Size of sockadr_storage: %d\n", sizeof(a));
> +        printf ("Size of sockaddr_un:%d\n", sizeof(b));
> +
> +        if (sizeof(a) >= sizeof(b))
> +                printf ("Conformant to RFC 3493\n");
> +        else
> +                printf ("Non-conformant to RFC 3493\n");
> +}
> +---------- snip here - test_size.c ----------------------------
> +
> +
> +The problem was reported to IBM, and is recorded as bug report
> +PMR29657.
> +
> +An immediate resolution is to alter _SS_MAXSIZE to = 1025 in
> +/usr/include/sys/socket.h, which will resolve the immediate problem.
> +
> +It appears that the "final" resolution will be to alter _SS_MAXSIZE to
> +1280, making the size nicely align with page boundaries.
> +
> +IBM will be providing a fix in the next maintenance release (expected
> +in October 2005) with an updated socket.h.
> +---
> +From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info>
> +Date: 2005-07-15
> +
> +Some of the AIX tools may be "a little different" from what you may be
> +accustomed to on other platforms.  If you are looking for a version of
> +ldd, useful for determining what object code depends on what
> +libraries, the following URLs may help you...
> +
> +http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part4/section-22.html
> +
> +http://www.han.de/~jum/aix/ldd.c
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