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authorMagnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>2008-10-30 17:04:11 +0000
committerMagnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>2008-10-30 17:04:11 +0000
commit3a0b0e8260965f10227599d7961dbccbbb53a903 (patch)
treeb841ba142fa334dca0e7e51502dae443ff819f3d /src
parentf6dc2786ab5f803639d2565cec4e009f1d997816 (diff)
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Revert previous patch to put the shared memory segment on win32
in the Global\ namespace, because it caused permission errors on a lot of platforms. We need to come up with something better for 8.4, but for now revert to the pre-8.3.4 behaviour.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index d3532f222ae..394eb976f04 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c,v 1.4.2.1 2008/07/04 10:50:20 mha Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c,v 1.4.2.2 2008/10/30 17:04:11 mha Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -57,7 +57,13 @@ GetSharedMemName(void)
elog(FATAL, "could not generate full pathname for datadir %s: %lu",
DataDir, GetLastError());
- for (cp = retptr + 18; *cp; cp++)
+ /*
+ * XXX: Intentionally overwriting the Global\ part here. This was not the
+ * original approach, but putting it in the actual Global\ namespace
+ * causes permission errors in a lot of cases, so we leave it in
+ * the default namespace for now.
+ */
+ for (cp = retptr; *cp; cp++)
if (*cp == '\\')
*cp = '/';