On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Were you running a live PG instance on the box at the same time? OS X's
> default SHMMAX is small enough that PG will eat all of it by default,
> meaning that attempting to start a second postmaster on the box will
> fail.
Yeah - I was.
I stopped m
Tim Hart writes:
> creating template1 database in
> /Users/thart/projects/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1 ...
> FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1613824, 03600).
> HINT: This error usually
All,
I've been installing postgres from source on os x for years, but I haven't
generally run 'make check' before I install. I don't feel that running 'make
check' is terribly necessary in this case - it's a personal sandbox on my
laptop, with no production value. Regardless, I realize that it'
