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

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Joel Burton" <joel@joelburton.com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "mlw" <markw@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-06T01:43:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> > 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?

I have postgresql working quite happily in FreeBSD jails!  (Just make sure
you go "sysctl jail.sysvipc_allowed=1").

Chris