On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 10:07:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Is it possible that the CygWin environment doesn't have a correct
>emulation of IPC semaphores, such that a sema allocated by one process
>(the postmaster) is not available to other procs (the backends)?
>That would explain preallocation not working --- but if that's it then
>we have major problems in other places, since the code assumes that a
>sema once allocated will remain available to later backends.
We don't have correct emulation of IPC semapahores since they are not
implemented at all. I assume that if you're relying on persistent
semaphores, then some add-on package is being used.
cgf