Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare 7.1.4 (and OpenServer) sigwait issue

2009-02-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
I don't think anyone replied to your questions below so let me try. I am afraid this falls in the same category as the HP-UX patch, in that it is for threading on an older platform and is more for a single site rather than something where more users can benefit. It would be interesting if you

Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare 7.1.4 (and OpenServer) sigwait issue

2009-02-07 Thread Andrew Chernow
I am afraid this falls in the same category as the HP-UX patch, in that it is for threading on an older platform Really? It was released in 2004 (maintenance pack 4 released in June 2008). It would be interesting if you could host a web page, perhaps on our wiki, that lists patches for

Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare 7.1.4 (and OpenServer) sigwait issue

2009-02-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Chernow wrote: I am afraid this falls in the same category as the HP-UX patch, in that it is for threading on an older platform Really? It was released in 2004 (maintenance pack 4 released in June 2008). Oh, I didn't know that. We have had lots of problems with SCO/Unixware

Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare 7.1.4 (and OpenServer) sigwait issue

2009-02-07 Thread Andrew Chernow
going. Also, there is much threading API churn that we haven't been fond of trying to get everything working. The provided pthreads is 100% busted on unixware. I'd only recommend its use to someone I don't like :) This is one of several platforms that we use the GNU Pth library as a

Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare 7.1.4 (and OpenServer) sigwait issue

2009-02-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Chernow wrote: going. Also, there is much threading API churn that we haven't been fond of trying to get everything working. The provided pthreads is 100% busted on unixware. I'd only recommend its use to someone I don't like :) This is one of several platforms that we use

[HACKERS] UnixWare 7.1.4 (and OpenServer) sigwait issue

2009-01-24 Thread Andrew Chernow
Continuing http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-01/msg01762.php Bruce Momjian wrote: Well, this helps explain why were are getting these problems reports only now. How many hacks do you have that we don't support, aside from the threading one for HPUX? Compiling threaded