From 696df5a57d29781d4433f8cc5ef1bfb7b9a07154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Magnus Hagander Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:04:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c index 970b552043..893ca609ef 100644 --- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c +++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c @@ -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 = '/'; -- 2.39.5