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Re: Vacuuming the operating system documentation

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-06-08T05:44:06Z
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On 2020-06-07 17:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?

It sounds like both shared_memory_type and dynamic_shared_memory_type 
ought to default to "sysv" on Linux.

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Commits

  1. Doc: Update example symptom of systemd misconfiguration.

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