Reject huge_pages=on if shared_memory_type=sysv.

It doesn't work (it could, but hasn't been implemented).
Back-patch to 12, where shared_memory_type arrived.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163271880203.22789.1125998876173795966@wrigleys.postgresql.org

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 0c3193bfebbc2233ca844730094dcc39adf4fcb1..b5d06b49e29b0a5ef165e4c3026b44809c5ed6ab 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1664,7 +1664,9 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
        <para>
         At present, this setting is supported only on Linux and Windows. The
         setting is ignored on other systems when set to
-        <literal>try</literal>.
+        <literal>try</literal>.  On Linux, it is only supported when
+        <varname>shared_memory_type</varname> is set to <literal>mmap</literal>
+        (the default).
        </para>
 
        <para>

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 9de96edf6ad43cfd057403e5b9720053b9960f62..35cce89e9c99c4ff1a587d4648ca6a54e3c44453 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -686,6 +686,12 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
                 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
 #endif
 
+   /* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
+   if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
+       ereport(ERROR,
+               (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+                errmsg("huge pages not supported with the current shared_memory_type setting")));
+
    /* Room for a header? */
    Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));