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Re: 7.4 shared memory error on 64-bit SPARC/Solaris 5.8



On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:19:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Baden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi there.  My install was failing the regression tests
> > due to a shared memory error.
> 
> After reviewing the proposed patch, I find it hard to believe that the
> patch would have fixed any such problem --- even if key_t is 64 bits
> on your system, the code should still have worked, because we'd never
> have selected a key value wider than 32 bits anyway.  What *exact*
> misbehavior were you seeing?

It's not the key (key_t) that is the problem, but the size, which
used to be int but got replaced by a size_t.


Kurt


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