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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8
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Msg-id 28093.1070320086@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8  (Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>)
Responses Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8  (Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>)
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Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:19:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> After reviewing the proposed patch, I find it hard to believe that the
>> patch would have fixed any such problem ---

> It's not the key (key_t) that is the problem, but the size, which
> used to be int but got replaced by a size_t.

I don't see a problem there either.  We don't create shmem segments
larger than 2Gb (and if we wanted to do so, this patch certainly
isn't enough to get it done --- all the arithmetic for shmem sizing
is int).

            regards, tom lane

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