Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL on AIX

D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On June 5, 2002 12:33 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > > On May 13, 2002 12:50 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> 
> Catching up on an old mailbox, Bruce?  :-)
> 
> > > Now if only I could get IBM to understand that.  They still claim that my
> > > problem is that PostgreSQL (an "unsupported" application) is doing
> > > something to catch SIGKILL.
> >
> > First, an application can't catch SIGKILL. It never arrives to
> > applications.  It is supposed to pull the process with no warning.
> >
> > However, there are things processes can do to wedge themselves in a
> > system call so they don't see the SIGKILL.  Of course, as soon as they
> > return from the system call, they die.
> 
> Exactly.  What IBM was saying was was that we were "catching" SIGKILL and I 
> could not convince the (supposedly technical) IBMers that they were talking 
> out their ass.

Yes, they didn't know "catching" from "ignoring because in
uninterruptible system call".

> Anyway, I am pretty sure that PostgreSQL is not the culprit here.  As it 
> happens this project is back on the table for me so it is interesting that 
> your email popped up now.  I just compiled the latest version of PostgreSQL 
> on my AIX system and it generated lots of errors and then completed and 
> installed fine.  Makes me sort of nervous.  We'll see how it goes.  Anyone 
> have any horror/success stories about PostgreSQL on AIX for me?

Would you check those error/warnings and send us patches or a list of
them.  Sometimes different compilers like AIX can show problems gcc
doesn't.

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