On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On lör, 2010-11-13 at 20:07 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On lör, 2010-11-13 at 12:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >> > > On lör, 2010-11-13 at 11:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> > >> It looks like all the unhappy critters are getting the same "virtual >> > >> memory exhausted" error. I wonder whether they are all using make >> > >> 3.80 ... >> > >> > > It turns out that there is an unrelated bug in 3.80 that some Linux >> > > distributions have patched around. 3.81 or 3.82 are OK. >> > >> > So what do you mean by "unrelated bug"? Can we work around it? >> >> The information is fuzzy, but the problem has been reported around the >> internet, and it appears to be related to the foreach function. I think >> I have an idea how to work around it, but I'll need some time. > > Well, it looks like $(eval) is pretty broken in 3.80, so either we > require 3.81 or we abandon this line of thought.
3.81 might be a problem for Solaris - unless I pay for a support contract from Oracle, I'm not going to get any updates from them, which means I'll have to install a custom build. Now that's no biggie for me, but it does see to raise the bar somewhat for users that might want to build from source. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
