Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D37A01095 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:32:13 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RVm8p-0002EA-GP for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:32:13 +0000 Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id pAUFVqAY011502; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:31:52 -0500 (EST) To: Emmanuel Kasper cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, mbalmer@NetBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.html needs updating for NetBSD In-reply-to: <4ED635E0.9000900@libera.cc> References: <4ED635E0.9000900@libera.cc> Comments: In-reply-to Emmanuel Kasper message dated "Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:55:44 +0100" Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:31:52 -0500 Message-ID: <11501.1322667112@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Pg-Spam-Score: -3.1 (---) X-Archive-Number: 201111/30 X-Sequence-Number: 7105 Emmanuel Kasper writes: > The NetBSD paragraph about setting the amount of shared memory for > NetBSD in > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.html is outdated. > Since NetBSD 5.0 the shared memory size settings can be changed via the > sysctl interface. Thanks for the info. I gather from http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/sysctl.7.html that it's still necessary to make sure that SysV IPC code is compiled into the kernel at all --- should we retain the first sentence that mentions that, or do you think it's unnecessary? regards, tom lane