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Tom Lane 154163238e Add code to InternalIpcMemoryCreate() to handle the case where shmget()
returns EINVAL for an existing shared memory segment.  Although it's not
terribly sensible, that behavior does meet the POSIX spec because EINVAL
is the appropriate error code when the existing segment is smaller than the
requested size, and the spec explicitly disclaims any particular ordering of
error checks.  Moreover, it does in fact happen on OS X and probably other
BSD-derived kernels.  (We were able to talk NetBSD into changing their code,
but purging that behavior from the wild completely seems unlikely to happen.)
We need to distinguish collision with a pre-existing segment from invalid size
request in order to behave sensibly, so it's worth some extra code here to get
it right.  Per report from Gavin Kistner and subsequent investigation.

Back-patch to all supported versions, since any of them could get used
with a kernel having the debatable behavior.
2010-05-01 22:46:30 +00:00
config Don't link PL/Python against LOCALMODLIBS 2010-03-17 22:02:44 +00:00
contrib Modify ShmemInitStruct and ShmemInitHash to throw errors internally, 2010-04-28 16:54:16 +00:00
doc Install hack workaround for failure of 'make all' in VPATH builds. 2010-05-01 21:31:17 +00:00
src Add code to InternalIpcMemoryCreate() to handle the case where shmget() 2010-05-01 22:46:30 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure tag for 9.0beta1 2010-04-30 03:16:58 +00:00
configure.in tag for 9.0beta1 2010-04-30 03:16:58 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Separate targets "make docs" and "make install-docs" for the documentation 2010-03-30 00:10:46 +00:00
Makefile Add new make targets "world", "install-world" and "installcheck-world" to build, install and check just about everything. 2010-01-28 23:59:52 +00:00
README Point to our download URL, rather than listing interface in the README 2008-05-06 22:02:12 +00:00
README.CVS Fix the makefiles to fail cleanly if Perl is needed but not present. This 2009-06-23 03:46:00 +00:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

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