On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:31 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:16 PM James Sewell <james.sew...@jirotech.com> 
> wrote:
> >> Here's a starter patch that shows one of the approaches discussed.  It
> >> gets WSL users to a better place than they were before, by suppressing
> >> further warnings after the first one.
> >
> > This wasn't quite right, updated to check erro for ENOSYS (not rc)
> >
> > This compiles and stops the panic on WSL (with a single warning).
> >
> > I haven't tested if a version compiled on Linux will behave the same way - 
> > but based on the error messages in the top post it looks like the behavior 
> > is the same.
>
> Great.  Thanks for testing, and for the fix!  Well that all sounds
> like good news: it corrects the behaviour from 11.2, and also improves
> on the previous behaviour which I'd have accepted as a bug if anyone
> had reported it.  So the next problem is that we don't have a
> consensus on whether this is the right approach, so I don't feel like
> I can commit it yet.  Does any want to make another concrete proposal?

Ok, here's the version I'm planning to push soon if there are no objections.
Re-adding Bruce to the thread, as I just noticed the CC list got
pruned at some point in this thread.

-- 
Thomas Munro
https://enterprisedb.com

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