6.1R: Postgresql 8.1.3 and threadsafe.

[Sam Lawrance]

On 08/06/2006, at 4:12 AM, Anish Mistry wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:29, Sam Lawrance wrote:
>> On 30/05/2006, at 12:03 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:34:34AM +0200, Sten Daniel S?rsdal
> wrote:
>>>> Does this one go to database@ or ports@
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE (i386) considered threadsafe with Postgresql
>>>> 8.1.3.
>>>> I ran 8.1.2 without any noticable effects but after upgrading
>>>> from 5.4
>>>> to 6.1 by means of making world (make buildworld; make kernel;
>>>> reboot;
>>>> rm -rf /usr/obj/*; make buildworld; shutdown now; mergemaster
>>>> -p; make
>>>> installworld; mergemaster -i; sync; reboot; make kernel; reboot)
>>>>
>>>> I have had segmentation faults (signal 11) of conftest whenever
>>>> i try to
>>>> build it from ports. My local ports and src tree is the same as
>>>> the one
>>>> distributed with 6.1 RELEASE (from 6.1 RELEASE CD)
>>>>
>>>> I built world with -O2 -pipe and kernel with -O2 -pipe. kernel
>>>> is not generic but instead i run my own configuration
>>>> (included). In /etc/make.conf i chose not to build games and
>>>> shared docs.
>>>>
>>>> I'm fairly certain the memory chips are ok after a few rounds of
>>>> memtest86.
>>>>
>>>> options         CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION
>>>> options         PQ_CACHESIZE=512
>>>> options         DIRECTIO
>>>> options         SW_WATCHDOG
>>>> options         MP_WATCHDOG
>>>> options         ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS
>>>> options         AUTO_EOI_1
>>>> options         AUTO_EOI_2
>>>
>>> That's a lot of weird options, are you sure you need them?
>>>
>>> Look at what the relevant conftest.c is running, verify it
>>> segfaults when you run it by hand, then post the code.
>>
>> Not to mention compiling the kernel with -O2 is unsupported, and
>> generally considered a bad idea.
> Not true.  For kernel compiling -O2 has been supported since 6.0.

I'm not aware of it.  Got a pointer to some documentation or list  
archives so I can read up?