On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Ivan E. Panchenko <
i.panchenko@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>
> 23.11.2017 17:21, Dave Page пишет:
>
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Ivan E. Panchenko <
> i.panchenko@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>
>>
>> 23.11.2017 15:15, Dave Page пишет:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Ivan E. Panchenko <
>> i.panchenko@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Magnus,
>>>
>>> Sorry for slow reply. Our patch for windows GUI installers page is
>>> attached.
>>>
>>
>> From looking at the Github page, it looks like you are applying a number
>> of patches to PostgreSQL. Is that correct?
>>
>> Thanks for noticing them :)
>
> Mandatory patches are applied only to 9.2.14 and 9.4.9 versions.
>>
>> 9.2.14: a postmaster shutdown when server is killed:
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/27520.1444682101%40sss.pgh.pa.us
>> (a patch by Tom Lane, later committed in 9.2 branch)
>>
>> 9.4.9: increase isolation between shared memory segments of different
>> postmaster instances (really a strange thing, probably unnecessary)
>> Was not commited anywhere.
>>
> I've found it. Here is the discussion:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1444920387.
> 3661.7.camel%40postgrespro.ru#1444920387.3661.7.camel@postgrespro.ru
> Really something other was committed to solve the problem.
>
>
>> We can remove both, we do not want to bother the community with this.
>> Should we ?
>>
>
> I think so, if we're to list the packages on our main download pages.
>
> Ok, now the abovementioned two patches are already removed.
>
>
>
>>
>> Other patches are applied only when a special environment variable is
>> set, which is not done by default.
>>
>
> Do you mean they are only applied during the build process if the envvar
> is set, or that they are activated at runtime if the envvar is set? I think
> the former is fine, but not the latter.
>
> The envvar should be set at build time to include this patches. No runtime
> activation.
>
> Those additional patches are not included in the binaries distributed at
> the download page we suggest to list on postgresql.org.
>
Cool, thanks - that works for me :-)
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