"Joel Burton" <joel@joelburton.com> writes:
> Would this have the benefit of allow PostgreSQL to work properly in BSD
> jails, since lack of really working SysV IPC was the problem there?
>>
>> Was the problem just with semas, or was shmem an issue too?
> Not sure -- doesn't get far enough for me to tell. initdb dies with:
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1...
> IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed:
> Function not implemented
We create shared memory before semaphores, so if you got this far then
the shmem code is probably working (at least minimally).
Do you have working sem_open or sem_init (ie, POSIX semaphores)?
regards, tom lane