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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R Problem found...and a question 
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From: "Michael Graff" <explorer@flame.org>
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>	...question 1: why isn't the error message concerning this a little
>more descriptive then "Bad System Call"?

That is more than likely the exact error returned from the operating
system.  I would rather have postgres return that instead of trying to
guess what is wrong itself.

--Michael

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