Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports

"Joel Burton" <joel@joelburton.com> writes:
>> Rather than propagating the SysV semaphore API still further, why don't
>> we kill it now?  (I'm willing to keep the shmem API, however.)

> Would this have the benefit of allow PostgreSQL to work properly in BSD
> jails, since lack of really working SysV IPC was the problem there?

Was the problem just with semas, or was shmem an issue too?

In any case, unless someone actually writes an alternative sema
implementation that will work on BSD, nothing will happen...
        regards, tom lane