You will need to modify your shared memory settings or change your
shared_buffers parameter in the postgresql.conf file. (Most likely need to
increase SHMMAX as the default for OSX is quite low as I recall)
Take a look here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/kernel-resources.html
There
Hi,
I am trying to install postgresql 8 on a G5 OS X machine and cannot get
past this error i have tried changing the shared buffer with no luck.
Error message:
/usr/local/pgsql/data postgres$ FATAL: could not create shared memory
segment: Invalid argument
DETAIL: Failed system call was sh