Re: 7.4.2 on Solaris 9 - Error

Jan Wieck wrote:
> > This problem was just recently fixed in cvs and will go out in the 7.4.3
> > release. For no your best bet is to checkout the 7.4 branch from cvs, or
> > search the pgsql-committers archives to find the patch you need to apply.
>
> Isn't that funny ... I just yesterday ran into the same problem with
> 7.4.2 on Solaris.
>
> One other problem I am looking into (and why I tried to compile with
> thread safety in the first place) is that this somehow did not turn on
> -D_REENTRANT in the CFLAGS for libpq. And that leads to libpq not using
> the threadsafe definition of errno, leading to serious communication
> trouble in the end (pqReadData() failing with ENOENT while the real
> error is a harmless EAGAIN from a nonblocking recv()).

Please try REL7_4_STABLE to see if that works. It has several Solaris
thread fixes, both for getpwuid_r and template/solaris.

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