I found some trouble in installing PostgreSQL 7.4beta2 on Mac OS X 10.2.6. Specifically, on that operating system, the new script calculates shared-buffers at 400 and max-connections at 20. The problem is that once you get to the point in the script where template1 is being created, the calls to "postgres -boot ..." appear to still assume a "best case" scenario of 1000 and 100, respectively, a situation that repeats itself throughout the rest of the script. This causes a failure of initdb on platforms where 1000 and 100 exceed the OS' capability.
I therefore applied the following change, which allowed initdb to work
without problem. I am not sure that this is in the appropriate format. If not, my apologies.
[share]$ diff ~/src/postgresql-7.4beta2/src/bin/initdb /opt/pgsql/bin/initdb 610a611,612
PGSQL_OPT="$PGSQL_OPT -c shared-buffers=$nbuffers -cmax-connections=$nconns"
- Will
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