Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows
Date
Msg-id 20090714152847.GH4799@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows  (Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tsutomu Yamada wrote:
> >> This patch using VirtualAlloc()/VirtualFree() to avoid failing in
> >> reattach to shared memory.
> 
> > Since this fixes a very annoying bug present in older versions, I think
> > this should be backpatched all the way back to 8.2.
> 
> Agreed, but first we need some evidence that it actually fixes the
> problem.  How can we acquire such evidence?

Send the patch to the people who has reported trouble and see if it
seems gone?  If somebody is able to build patched Win32 packages I could
point a couple of guys in the spanish list to them.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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