Thanks for the help, Tom, and others who made suggestions.
I compiled and installed 8.0.6 with no problems on OS X 10.2.8
My little old imac's a happy postgres host now.
Neil
--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Neil Brandt <far_neil@yahoo.ca> writes:
> > fd.c: In function `pg_fsync_writethrough':
> > fd.c:271: `F_FULLFSYNC' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > fd.c:271: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > fd.c:271: for each function it appears in.)
>
> Hmm. This is our bug: the code mistakenly supposes that every version
> of OS X has that symbol, whereas evidently it was introduced in 10.3.
>
> I'll try to see that this gets fixed for PG 8.1.3, but in the short run
> you might be best off to update your OS X installation, or revert to
> PG 8.0.* which doesn't try to use FULLFSYNC at all.
>
> If you'd really like to stay on OS X 10.2, please consider joining the
> buildfarm
> http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/index.html
> so that any other such problems will be caught promptly. We have
> buildfarm members running 10.3 and 10.4, but nobody covering 10.2.
>
> regards, tom lane
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