postgresql/doc/README.NT

From: "Joost Kraaijeveld" <JKraaijeveld@askesis.nl>
To: "Pgsql-Ports@Postgresql. Org" <pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: RE: [PORTS] Re: psql under win32
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:07:47 +0200
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Installing PostgreSQL on NT:

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It can be done by done by typing configure, make and make install.

1. Install the Cygwin package
2. Update to EGCS 1.1.2
   (This may be optional.)

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				OPTIONAL

1. Install the Andy Piper Tools (http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/)
   (This may be optional.)

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			  CYGWIN32 INSTALLATION

1. Download the Cygwin32 IPC Package by Ludovic LANGE 
   http://www.multione.capgemini.fr:80/tools/pack_ipc/current.tar.gz
2. Untar the package and follow the readme instructions.
3. Apply the patch from the file.
4. I tested 1.03.
5. I used the \cygwin-b20\h-i568-cygwin32\i586-cygwin32\lib and
\cygwin-b20\h-i568-cygwin32\i586-cygwin32\include\sys instead of the
/usr/local/lib and usr/local/include/sys.

NOTE:
Also, the cygnus-bindir has to be placed in the path before the
NT-directories, because the sort.exe has to be taken for cygnus, not
NT.

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		   POSTGRESQL INSTALL WITH NT SPECIFICS

1. Download the current version of PostgreSQL.
2. Untar the package.
3. Copy the files from \pgsql\src\win32 according to the readme file.
4. Edit \pgsql\src\template\cygwin32 if needed (I had to adjust the YFLAGS
path).
5. ./configure
6. make
7. create the directory /usr/local/pgsql manually: the mkdir cannot create a
directory 2 levels deep in one step.
8. make install
9. cd /usr/lical/pgsql/doc
10. make install
11. Set the environmental data
12. Initdb --username=jkr (do not run this command as administrator)

13. Open a new Cygwin command prompt
14. Start "ipc-deamon&" (background proces)
15. Start "postmaster -i 2>&1 > /tmp/postgres.log &" (background proces)
16. Start "tail -f /tmp/postgres.log" to see the messages

17. cd /usr/src/pgsql/src/test/regress
18. make all runtest

All test should be run, allthought the latest snapshot I tested (18-4)
appears to have some problems with locking.

NOTE:
By default, PostgreSQL clients like psql communicate using unix domain
sockets, which don't work on NT.  Start the postmaster with -i, and 
when connecting to the database from a client, set the PGHOST
environment variable to 'localhost' or supply the hostname on the
command line.

Joost


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FIX FOR POSTGRESQL FREEZING ON NT MACHINES - EVERYONE SHOULD APPLY THIS PATCH


From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
To: "Horak Daniel" <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) ) 
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:45:28 +0900
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
> [mailto:owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org]On Behalf Of Horak Daniel
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:06 PM
> To: 'Tom Lane'
> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org'
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] backend freezeing on win32 fixed (I hope ;-) )

Yutaka Tanida [yutaka@marin.or.jp] and I have examined IPC
library.

We found that postmaster doesn't call exec() after fork() since v6.4.

The value of static/extern variables which cygipc library holds may
be different from their initial values when postmaster fork()s child
backend processes.

I made the following patch for cygipc library on trial.
This patch was effective for Yutaka's test case.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp

*** sem.c.orig	Tue Dec 01 00:16:25 1998
--- sem.c	Tue Aug 17 13:22:06 1999
***************
*** 58,63 ****
--- 58,78 ----
  static int		  GFirstSem	 = 0;		/*PCPC*/
  static int		  GFdSem	    ;		/*PCPC*/

+ static pid_t	GProcessId = 0;
+
+ static void	init_globals(void)
+ {
+ 	pid_t pid;
+
+ 	if (pid=getpid(), pid != GProcessId)
+ 	{
+ 		GFirstSem = 0;
+ 		used_sems = used_semids = max_semid = 0;
+ 		sem_seq = 0;
+ 		GProcessId = pid;
+ 	}
+ }
+
  /************************************************************************/
  /* Demande d'acces a la zone partagee de gestion des semaphores		*/
  /************************************************************************/
***************
*** 77,82 ****
--- 92,98 ----
  {
      int LRet ;

+ 	init_globals();
      if( GFirstSem == 0 )
      {
  	if( IsGSemSemExist() )
*** shm.c.orig	Tue Dec 01 01:04:57 1998
--- shm.c	Tue Aug 17 13:22:27 1999
***************
*** 59,64 ****
--- 59,81 ----
  static int		  GFirstShm	 = 0;		/*PCPC*/
  static int		  GFdShm	    ;		/*PCPC*/

+ /*****************************************/
+ /*	Initialization of static variables   */
+ /*****************************************/
+ static pid_t GProcessId = 0;
+ static void init_globals(void)
+ {
+ 	pid_t pid;
+
+ 	if (pid=getpid(), pid != GProcessId)
+ 	{
+ 		GFirstShm = 0;
+ 		shm_rss = shm_swp = max_shmid = 0;
+ 		shm_seq = 0;
+ 		GProcessId = pid;
+ 	}
+ }
+
  /************************************************************************/
  /* Demande d'acces a la zone partagee de gestion des shm		*/
  /************************************************************************/
***************
*** 82,87 ****
--- 99,105 ----
  {
   int LRet ;

+  init_globals();
   if( GFirstShm == 0 )
   {
    if( IsGSemShmExist() )
*** msg.c.orig	Tue Dec 01 00:16:09 1998
--- msg.c	Tue Aug 17 13:20:04 1999
***************
*** 57,62 ****
--- 57,77 ----
  static int		  GFirstMsg	 = 0;		/*PCPC*/
  static int		  GFdMsg	    ;		/*PCPC*/

+ /*****************************************/
+ /*	Initialization of static variables   */
+ /*****************************************/
+ static pid_t GProcessId = 0;
+ static void init_globals(void)
+ {
+ 	pid_t pid;
+
+ 	if (pid=getpid(), pid != GProcessId)
+ 	{
+ 		GFirstMsg = 0;
+ 		msgbytes = msghdrs = msg_seq = used_queues = max_msqid = 0;
+ 		GProcessId = pid;
+ 	}
+ }
  /************************************************************************/
  /* Demande d'acces a la zone partagee de gestion des semaphores		*/
  /************************************************************************/
***************
*** 79,84 ****
--- 94,100 ----
  {
   int LRet ;

+  init_globals();
   if( GFirstMsg == 0 )
   {
    if( IsGSemMsgExist() )