Re: cvs head? initdb?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cvs head? initdb?
Date: 2003-11-14 04:29:22
Message-ID: 200311140429.hAE4TMP06025@candle.pha.pa.us
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> > elein(at)varlena(dot)com (elein) writes:
> >> What is the status of CVS head? Isn't it in sync with 7.4.RC2? I
> >> just upgraded from CVS and rebuilt clean and initdb now gives this
> >> lovely informative initdb failed message.
> >
> > No, I believe that they have started applying 7.5 patches, notably
> > including reimplementing initdb in C.
> >
> > Jan checked in the ARC changes last night, and he and Tom ran into
> > some problems, leading to that being pulled back out, while he
> > revisits the code.
>
> Yeah, there was a problem with *extreme* sharing ... the code tried to
> use the same buffer for multiple disk blocks at the same time, and
> somehow the backends did not agree on the correct content. But it's
> fixed and back in. You can see ARC working by setting
>
> buffer_strategy_status_interval = 10 # seconds
>
> and starting postmaster with -d1

It is not on by default?

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