Re: Supporting huge pages on Windows

From: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: 'Craig Ringer' <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Supporting huge pages on Windows
Date: 2017-04-05 04:25:41
Message-ID: 0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6C0A01@G01JPEXMBYT05
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From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com]
> On 5 April 2017 at 10:37, Tsunakawa, Takayuki
> <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
>
> OTOH, I tried again to leave the DISABLE_MAX_PRIVILEGE as is and add Lock
> Pages in Memory, using the attached pg_ctl.c. Please see
> EnableLockPagesPrivilege() and its call site. But pg_ctl -w start fails
> emitting the following message:
>
> That won't work. You'd have to pass 0 to the flags of CreateRestrictedToken
> and instead supply a PrivilegesToDelete array.
> You'd probably GetTokenInformation and AND with a mask of ones you wanted
> to retain.

Uh, that's inconvenient. We can't determine what privileges to delete, and we must be aware of new privileges added in the future version of Windows.

Then, I have to say the last patch (v12) is the final answer.

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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