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

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 evidence