Mac OS X 10.6.3
Built and installed PG 8.4.3 from source
Trying to start the server, I get "could not create shared memory segment:
Invalid argument".
I've bumped my shmmax/shmall and related parameters as suggested in the README
for the one-click installer (which I installed and then uninstalle
On Apr 29, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> For comparison, I have these settings on my laptop:
>
> pro:~ tgl$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf
> kern.sysv.shmmax=33554432
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=8192
>
> and PG starts fine for me.
I'm not sure
On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Does the theory of a pre-existing smaller shmem segment make sense from
> your end? In particular, had you previously had another Postgres server
> running on that machine, and perhaps killed it ungracefully? If this
> theory is correct, the issue wa
