On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 02:00:36PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think the two issues you are pointing out are the same issue --
> namely, if initdb probes for a max_connections setting with an invalid
> DSM implementation configured, it will fail the test for every value
> of max_connections and thus select the lowest possible value. The
> solution to this is presumably just to make sure we choose the DSM
> implementation before we do the max_connections probing so that we can
> pass through the correct value there, which I think is what your patch
> does.
Yes, that's what the thing does. It moves the routine to find the DSM
implementation before computing max_connections.
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Michael