Re: [HACKERS] silent_mode and LINUX_OOM_ADJ

2011-06-27 Thread Reinhard Max
Hi Heikki, On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 at 12:10, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Max, you're the maintainer of the PostgreSQL SuSE RPMs, right? my first name is Reinhard, but aside from that, you are right. ;) Can you comment on the above? I enabled it many years ago when (IIRC) it was needed in conjun

Re: [HACKERS] silent_mode and LINUX_OOM_ADJ

2011-06-28 Thread Reinhard Max
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 at 10:40, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: It seems to me you could just stop setting silent_mode. If you want to capture any early errors at startup into a log file, like silent_mode does to postmaster.log, you can redirect stdout and stderr in the startup script. pg_ctl start -l

Re: [HACKERS] [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL v7.3b5 Packaged for Testing ...

2002-11-15 Thread Reinhard Max
Hi Marc, On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 at 09:59, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > At this point, we are looking for confirmation that all the > platforms are building and running the regression tests correctly, v7.3b5 builds and passes the testsuite under SuSE Linux on the following platforms: i386, ia64

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] [HACKERS] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init

2006-08-25 Thread Reinhard Max
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 at 10:20, Tom Lane wrote: > If this were a bulletproof solution then I'd consider it anyway, but > AFAICS it's got the very same vulnerabilities as the flag-file > method, ie, if you RPM install or upgrade while your mountable data > directory is offline, you can still get s

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] [HACKERS] Safer auto-initdb for RPM init

2006-09-11 Thread Reinhard Max
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 at 15:57, Lamar Owen wrote: > [...] or annoying the small number of people who NFS mount their > datadirs? This problem is not limited to NFS. It can happen with any FS just by reversing (for whatever reason) the order of mounting the FS and starting the PostgreSQL server.

[HACKERS] probably needless linking against readline and ncurses

2005-04-11 Thread Reinhard Max
Hi, it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql. Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything? cu

Re: [HACKERS] Erroneous PPC spinlock code

2003-11-09 Thread Reinhard Max
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 at 13:28, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The SuSE PPC guru said that the PPC spinlock code we currently use > > may behave erroneously on multiprocessor systems. > > What's his evidence for that claim? Let's ask himself. > The code we have

Re: [HACKERS] SUSE port (was [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Max
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 16:29, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > In the meantime I have received confirmation from Reinhard Max that > his test methods match our requirements, so the list will be > completed with the other platforms he reported in due time. Today I've updated the RPMs on

Re: [HACKERS] SUSE port (was [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Max
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 17:29, Reinhard Max wrote: > The only failure I have to report is sles8-x86_64, where I am > getting segfaults from psql during the regression tests. The segfault in a call to snprintf somewhere in libpq's kerberos5 code. So when I leave out --with-krb5 it c

[HACKERS] segfault caused by heimdal (was: SUSE port)

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Max
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 18:20, Reinhard Max wrote: > I am still not sure whether the kerberos library, glibc, or > PostgreSQL is to blame, or if it's a combination of bugs in these > components that triggers the segfault. The problem is, that the heimdal implementation of ker

Re: [HACKERS] segfault caused by heimdal (was: SUSE port)

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Max
Sorry for following up to myself once more... On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 19:36, Reinhard Max wrote: > The problem is, that the heimdal implementation of kerberos5 used on > sles8 needs an extra include statement for com_err.h in > src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c to get the prot

Re: [HACKERS] segfault caused by heimdal (was: SUSE port)

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Max
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 20:28, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > This is because the proper prototype is: > extern char const *error_message (long); > > And C automaticly generates a prototype with in int instead. > > On 32 bit platforms this ussualy isn't a problem since both int and > long are ussualy both

Re: [HACKERS] segfault caused by heimdal (was: SUSE port)

2005-01-12 Thread Reinhard Max
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 14:59, Tom Lane wrote: > That looks like a reasonable fix, but isn't it needed in > backend/libpq/auth.c as well? Yes, indeed: auth.c: In function `pg_krb5_init': auth.c:202: warning: implicit declaration of function `com_err' cu Reinhard ---

Re: [HACKERS] SUSE port (was [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5)

2005-01-13 Thread Reinhard Max
Simon, On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 08:23, Simon Riggs wrote: > Not sure what is going on here: why is SUSE not listed on the supported > platforms list? (still) > > ...is it because Reinhard seems resistant why do you think so? > (after private conversation) to the idea of submitting a formal port

Re: [HACKERS] SUSE port (was [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release

2005-01-13 Thread Reinhard Max
Tom, On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 03:53, Tom Lane wrote: > > ...or is it because his postings to ANNOUNCE that the port to SUSE > > have gone unnoticed by those that compile the supported platforms > > list? > > If he insists on posting such routine stuff to pgsql-announce, he > should not be too s

Re: [HACKERS] Is CVS HEAD open for 8.1 commits?

2005-01-18 Thread Reinhard Max
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 at 11:53, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > ... if someone knows how to safely remove a branch that has had no > commits made to it, please let me know, a little bit of googling brought me to this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-11/msg00166.html --- snip --- > How