D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On June 5, 2002 12:33 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > > On May 13, 2002 12:50 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote: > > Catching up on an old mailbox, Bruce? :-) > > > > Now if only I could get IBM to understand that. They still claim that my > > > problem is that PostgreSQL (an "unsupported" application) is doing > > > something to catch SIGKILL. > > > > First, an application can't catch SIGKILL. It never arrives to > > applications. It is supposed to pull the process with no warning. > > > > However, there are things processes can do to wedge themselves in a > > system call so they don't see the SIGKILL. Of course, as soon as they > > return from the system call, they die. > > Exactly. What IBM was saying was was that we were "catching" SIGKILL and I > could not convince the (supposedly technical) IBMers that they were talking > out their ass.
Yes, they didn't know "catching" from "ignoring because in uninterruptible system call". > Anyway, I am pretty sure that PostgreSQL is not the culprit here. As it > happens this project is back on the table for me so it is interesting that > your email popped up now. I just compiled the latest version of PostgreSQL > on my AIX system and it generated lots of errors and then completed and > installed fine. Makes me sort of nervous. We'll see how it goes. Anyone > have any horror/success stories about PostgreSQL on AIX for me? Would you check those error/warnings and send us patches or a list of them. Sometimes different compilers like AIX can show problems gcc doesn't. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
