Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
>> From Tom Lane's horror story...
>> I spent an hour tracing through startup of 6.4.x, and I now understand
>> why the thing doesn't crash despite the horrible bugs in ShmemInitHash.
>> Read on, if you have a strong stomach.
> Are Tom Lane's fixes included in 6.4.3 beta? I think his findings are
> so important.
I have made a patch for 6.4.x which I intend to commit into the REL6_4
tree, but it hasn't gotten as much testing as I would like. The patch
is attached if you care to try it for a while first. (These changes
are already in the development tree, BTW.)
regards, tom lane