Subject: Postgres 4.1 (on NEXTSTEP) Questions

From: [email-masked] (Gerben Wierda)
Date: Sat, 8 May 93 14:29:18 -0700

We are trying to get postgres to work on NEXTSTEP 3.0 on m68k  
hardware.

We have running:
	sysv ipc and shared memory
	dynamic loader
Postgres passes:
	regress
	demo
Postgres does not pass:
	video
Q1: Should postgres 4.1 be able to run the video test?

Q2: Postgres backend uses different id's for it's sysv semaphores.  
That makes those semaphores pretty useless when synchronizing. It  
uses 1 semaphore and the rest is done with test-and-set. Is this  
meant to be so, if yes, what is the meaning of this setup?

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