On 5/2/10, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dave Page <dpage@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Sofer, Yuval <Yuval_Sofer@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> PG "FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, >>> addr=02100000): Invalid argument. >>> >>> The version is 8.2.4, the platform is win32 > >> This was fixed in 8.3.8 and 8.4.1. I'm not entirely sure why it didn't >> get backpatched to 8.2 - it was mentioned in the discussion about the >> patch, but I don't see any reason for not back patching it stated. >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/thrd5.php#00782 > > The patch that was being worked on at the time wouldn't have come close > to applying to 8.2, because the win32 shmem code got rearranged very > substantially for 8.3. However, AIUI it's the same underlying > technology, so in principle it could be fixed the same way. Right - thats what i was expecting to see. > If we take seriously the proposition that we're still supporting 8.2 > on Windows, we probably ought to do something about that. If we don't, > we need to officially deprecate that version. That's the last non-msvc++ version. Personally I'd love to drop it so i can get rid of mingw/msys and move entirely to vc++ for Win32 and Win64. I'm not so sure it's fair to the users though. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
