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Re: Vacuuming the operating system documentation

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-06-08T00:03:09Z
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... Unfortunately it seems there's nothing
>> equivalent for POSIX shmem, so (2) is possible.  See

> Ah, I see.  Ok, I propose we update the example symptom to (2), and
> back-patch to 10.  See attached.

+1, except s/attemping/attempting/

>> Relevant to the current discussion: this creates a possible positive
>> reason for setting dynamic_shared_memory_type to "sysv", namely if it's
>> the best available way to get around RemoveIPC in a particular situation.
>> Should we document that?

> Doesn't seem worth the trouble, especially since the real solution is
> to tell systemd to back off by one of the two methods described.

Agreed.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Doc: Update example symptom of systemd misconfiguration.

  2. Doc: Clean up references to obsolete OS versions.