Gregory Stark wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> On Friday 02 January 2009 06:49:57 Greg Stark wrote:
>>> The guc run-time check is checking for known-buggy versions of glibc
>>> using sysconf to check what version of glibc you have.
>> Could you please mention the bug number in the relevant source code comments?
>
> It's Debian bug# 312406 which was fixed in Debian release 2.3.5-3. So it's
> probably one of these but searching for posix_fadvise doesn't find anything in
> their bug tracker:
The way I read this is that this was a temporary kernel/libc mismatch in
a development version of Debian 3 years ago that was fixed within 2
months of being reported and was never released to the general public.
So it would be on the same level as any of a million temporary breakages
in Linux distributions under development.
Unless there are other reports of this problem, I wouldn't bother
testing or working around this at all. If people are running PostgreSQL 8.4+ on Debian unstable June 2005 with kernel
2.4,they cannot be helped.
