Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 13:41, Magnus Hagander<magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 17:05, Magnus Hagander<magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> Dave has built binaries for 8.3.7 and 8.4.0 for this, available at:
>>
>> http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/postgres_exe_virtualalloc-8_3.zip
>> http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/postgres_exe_virtualalloc-8_4.zip
>>
>>
>> We would like as many people as possible to test this both on systems
>> that currently experience the problem and systems that don't, and let
>> us know the status. To test, just replace your current postgres.exe
>> binary with the one in the appropriate ZIP file above. Obviously, take
>> a backup before you do it! These binaries contain just this one patch
>> - the rest of what's been applied to the 8.3 and 8.4 branches for the
>> next minor version is *not* included.
>
> It's been a couple of weeks now, and I've had a number of reports both
> on-list, on-blog and in private, from people using this. I have not
> yet had a single report of a problem caused by this patch (not
> counting the case where there was a version mismatch - can't fault the
> patch for that).
>
> Given that, I say we apply this for 8.3 and 8.4 now. Comments?
Backpatched to 8.3 and 8.4 for now.

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