Re: [HACKERS] postmaster failure with 2-23 snapshot

> Is there any way (sysctl?) of determining the max # of semaphores
> configured into a system?
> 
> I just looked at a sys/sysconfig.h under Solaris, and it appears they have
> an "undocumented function" that does this...but I can't seem to find
> anything right off...
> 
> For that matter, being able to do a configure check to see if semaphores
> are even compiled into the system or not (ala FreeBSD) might be nice
> too...

None of the commercial db's do that, so I assume there is no portable
way.  We will lower the limit so it will pass most/all kernels, and help
people who need to up it.  Perhaps an FAQ for kernels.

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