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Update AIX FAQ. 

Chris Browne
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From: Zeugswetter Andreas <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
$Date: 2002/11/12 20:02:32 $
$Date: 2005/07/30 03:39:27 $
On AIX 4.3.2 PostgreSQL compiled with the native IBM compiler xlc
(vac.C 5.0.1) passes all regression tests. Other versions of OS and
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You need libm.a that is in the fileset bos.adt.libm. (Try the
following command.)
$ lslpp -l bos.adt.libm
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info>
Date: 2005-07-15
On AIX 5.3, there have been some problems getting PostgreSQL to
compile and run using GCC.
1. You will want to use a version of GCC subsequent to 3.3.2,
particularly if you use a prepackaged version. We had good
success with 4.0.1.
Problems with earlier versions seem to have more to do with the
way IBM packaged GCC than with actual issues with GCC, so that if
you compile GCC yourself, you might well have success with an
earlier version of GCC.
2. AIX 5.3 has a problem where sockadr_storage is not defined to be
large enough. In version 5.3, IBM increased the size of
sockaddr_un, the address structure for UNIX Domain Sockets, but
did not correspondingly increase the size of sockadr_storage.
The result of this is that attempts to use UDS with PostgreSQL
lead to libpq overflowing the data structure. TCP/IP connections
work OK, but not UDS, which prevents the regression tests from
working.
The nonconformance may be readily demonstrated by compiling and
running the following C program which calculates and compares the
sizes of the various structures:
test_size.c
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
struct sockaddr_storage a;
struct sockaddr_un b;
printf("Size of sockadr_storage: %d\n", sizeof(a));
printf ("Size of sockaddr_un:%d\n", sizeof(b));
if (sizeof(a) >= sizeof(b))
printf ("Conformant to RFC 3493\n");
else
printf ("Non-conformant to RFC 3493\n");
}
---------- snip here - test_size.c ----------------------------
The problem was reported to IBM, and is recorded as bug report
PMR29657.
An immediate resolution is to alter _SS_MAXSIZE to = 1025 in
/usr/include/sys/socket.h, which will resolve the immediate problem.
It appears that the "final" resolution will be to alter _SS_MAXSIZE to
1280, making the size nicely align with page boundaries.
IBM will be providing a fix in the next maintenance release (expected
in October 2005) with an updated socket.h.
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info>
Date: 2005-07-15
Some of the AIX tools may be "a little different" from what you may be
accustomed to on other platforms. If you are looking for a version of
ldd, useful for determining what object code depends on what
libraries, the following URLs may help you...
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part4/section-22.html
http://www.han.de/~jum/aix/ldd.c