Re: cvs head? initdb?

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
> > elein@varlena.com (elein) writes:
> >> What is the status of CVS head?  Isn't it in sync with 7.4.RC2?  I
> >> just upgraded from CVS and rebuilt clean and initdb now gives this
> >> lovely informative initdb failed message.
> > 
> > No, I believe that they have started applying 7.5 patches, notably
> > including reimplementing initdb in C.
> > 
> > Jan checked in the ARC changes last night, and he and Tom ran into
> > some problems, leading to that being pulled back out, while he
> > revisits the code.
> 
> Yeah, there was a problem with *extreme* sharing ... the code tried to 
> use the same buffer for multiple disk blocks at the same time, and 
> somehow the backends did not agree on the correct content. But it's 
> fixed and back in. You can see ARC working by setting
> 
>      buffer_strategy_status_interval = 10 # seconds
> 
> and starting postmaster with -d1

It is not on by default?

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