Re: [GENERAL] initdb fails to allocate shared memory

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Could we see the output of > sysctl -a | grep sysv "ipcs -a" might be informative, too. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] initdb fails to allocate shared memory

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
"A.M." writes: > Then it seems that the error reporting could be improved to not mention > "shared_buffers" and "max_connections" neither of which I can touch during > initdb. The error has to be phrased to cover the case where you hit it after initdb. It would be quite unhelpful to *not* ment

Re: [GENERAL] initdb fails to allocate shared memory

2010-08-25 Thread A.M.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 11:15 -0400, A.M. wrote: >> I am using pgsql9.0b4 (but pgsql8.4 exhibits the same behavior) on MacOS >> 10.6.4 and initdb fails: >> initdb: removing data directory "/Volumes/Data/pgsql90b" >> >> I would like to create

Re: [GENERAL] initdb fails to allocate shared memory

2010-08-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 11:15 -0400, A.M. wrote: > I am using pgsql9.0b4 (but pgsql8.4 exhibits the same behavior) on MacOS > 10.6.4 and initdb fails: > initdb: removing data directory "/Volumes/Data/pgsql90b" > > I would like to create the database space and then reduce the shared memory > requir