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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:20:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Postmaster core dumps
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On Jul 18 22:06, Reini Urban wrote:
> Novaelec schrieb:
> >I run gdb with postmaster, the last process necessary to complete the
> >PostgreSQL installation and which makes memory faults.
> >
> >I got then a little text about semaphores, the 'semget' function and a
> >little tip to configure /usr/local/data/postgresql.conf, but I've been
> >trying to make postmaster works helped for that info and another one from
> >internet without get any result.
> >
> >Any idea? Now I know the problem is related to semaphores, but I don't get
> >any progress in that sense.
> 
> Most likely it's not semget() but earlier in the initial IPC setup in
> CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores() with parallel connections.
> I always get IsBadWritePtr() in shminit() since 8.0-beta3.

Does that mean it's a bug in postgresql or in cygserver?  If the latter,
can you prepare a minimal testcase, please?


Thanks,
Corinna

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