On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Due to unfortunate environmental conditions (don't ask) I've been > trying to get postgres 9.0 up and running on a fairly ancient linux -- > redhat EL 3 which as kernel 2.4.21. initdb borks on the create > database step with the error message "child process exited with error > code 139". A bit of tracing revealed the exit was happening at the > pg_flush_data which basically wraps posix_fadvise. Disabling fadvise > support in pg_config_manual.h fixed the problem. > > Things brings up a couple of questions: > *) Are linuxes this old out of support? > *) Should configure be testing for working posix_fadvise?
some searching of the archives turned up this: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-02/msg00175.php which pretty much explains the issue (see subsequent discussion). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
