Re: [HACKERS] posix_fadvise versus old kernels

2006-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> While we could possibly come up with a suitable configure test to >> determine whether posix_fadvise is actually safe to use on a given >> system, I think we should seriously consider just reverting the patch. >> As far as I saw, zero e

Re: [HACKERS] posix_fadvise versus old kernels

2006-06-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > I've been digging into why buildfarm member thrush has been dumping core > consistently during the regression tests since the posix_fadvise patch > went in. I've confirmed that posix_fadvise() itself will SIGSEGV in a > standalone test program, and found that this happens only if

[HACKERS] posix_fadvise versus old kernels

2006-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
I've been digging into why buildfarm member thrush has been dumping core consistently during the regression tests since the posix_fadvise patch went in. I've confirmed that posix_fadvise() itself will SIGSEGV in a standalone test program, and found that this happens only if _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ..