Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-16 Thread John Griffiths
I am certainly not an expert in OSX, but many Unix variants have to have the changes made in the conf directories; then the kernel has to be rebuilt AND the environment rebuilt. It is not a one step process on all Unix variants. I don't know for sure, but rebuilding the environment after maki

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-15 Thread Neil Conway
Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find it difficult to understand exactally what > reasonable values are. This page in the documentation includes a table that specifies "reasonable values" for all of the SysV IPC settings: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/kernel-r

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-15 Thread Theodore Petrosky
BTW, I find it difficult to understand exactally what reasonable values are. Is it possible in the docs to explain a little what these values should be. Or how to calculate them. I felt totally in the dark. If I hadn't fallen across an email on one of the sites that suggested values, I think I w

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should we update the documentation's advice? Looks that way. On my 10.3 beta installation, the "SystemTuning" file is present but it's just a stub ("exit 0"). The shmem sysctl calls have been moved into /etc/rc. I presume this is deliberate, so we shoul

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-15 Thread Theodore Petrosky
Neil, I posted to the apple site asking if anyone could recommend the 'correct' place to edit these settings. I don't think a change like this would survive a system update. But it was the only way I got the settings to 'take'. It deserves to be mentioned in the docs that this is necessary a

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-15 Thread Neil Conway
Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After about two hours of hunting pecking and anything > else I found where you control this in OSX 10.3 > > you must edit the /etc/rc file. > > /System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning > does nothing Should we update the document

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-15 Thread Theodore Petrosky
After about two hours of hunting pecking and anything else I found where you control this in OSX 10.3 you must edit the /etc/rc file. /System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning does nothing now.. 7.4 RC2 make check only fails on the geometry test type_sanity

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot > allocate memory > DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, > size=1081344, 03600). You need to increase SHMMAX. regards, tom lane ---(end

[BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-14 Thread Theodore Petrosky
This is the initdb.log for my OS X 10.3.1 system. the install was made with. ./configure make make check. Ted Running in noclean mode. Mistakes will not be cleaned up. The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. Th