Re: [HACKERS] Tom Lane's fixes in v6.4.3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Tom Lane's fixes in v6.4.3
Date: 1999-03-03 23:55:01
Message-ID: 26781.920505301@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> From Tom Lane's horror story...
>> I spent an hour tracing through startup of 6.4.x, and I now understand
>> why the thing doesn't crash despite the horrible bugs in ShmemInitHash.
>> Read on, if you have a strong stomach.

> Are Tom Lane's fixes included in 6.4.3 beta? I think his findings are
> so important.

I have made a patch for 6.4.x which I intend to commit into the REL6_4
tree, but it hasn't gotten as much testing as I would like. The patch
is attached if you care to try it for a while first. (These changes
are already in the development tree, BTW.)

regards, tom lane

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