Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8

--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> > He seems to have changed this too:
> > - typedef uint32 IpcMemoryKey;
> > + typedef size_t IpcMemoryKey;
> > That really should be a key_t.
>
> Yeah, I made it key_t in CVS tip.  I'm just
> wondering what this could
> avoid other than possibly a compile warning.
>
>             regards, tom lane

Greetings.  Sorry for the late reply.  I just
re-extracted and compiled the 7.4 release, and
recreated the error.

$ ls -ld postgresql-7.4.tar.bz2
-rw-------   1 tbaden   prd      9999669 Nov 18 12:22
postgresql-7.4.tar.bz2
$ md5 postgresql-7.4.tar.bz2
MD5(postgresql-7.4.tar.bz2)=
9db7432c431d1570b1f605727daf27bc

$ ./configure --with-python --with-openssl
--without-readline

Pertinent environment variables:

CC='cc -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
-D__EXTENSIONS__'
CXX='CC -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
-D__EXTENSIONS__'

After compilation, make check fails as follows:

make[3]: Leaving directory
`/export/home/tbaden/posttemp/postgresql-7.4/contrib/spi'
/bin/sh ./pg_regress --temp-install
--top-builddir=../../.. --schedule=./parallel_schedule
--multibyte=SQL_ASCII
============== creating temporary installation
==============
============== initializing database system
==============

pg_regress: initdb failed
Examine ./log/initdb.log for the reason.

I have attached initdb.log for your perusal.

I just went digging through the system include files,
and sure enough they do refer to key_t instead of
size_t.  I don't recall why I used size_t, except that
it must have been referenced in either a different .h
file or man page.

Cheers,
-Thomas

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