From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Gavin Kistner <phrogz@mac.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Fresh build on OS X not working (memory)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 20:28:00 -0600
Message-ID: <z2ndcc563d11005011928kf9373bfcu1c1a80e040671fbe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15253.1272606140@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Gavin Kistner <phrogz@mac.com> writes:
>> Mac OS X 10.6.3
>> Built and installed PG 8.4.3 from source
>> Trying to start the server, I get "could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument".
>
> OSX is *notoriously* unfriendly about configuring shm parameters.
> You look at it sidewise, it doesn't work, and generally won't tell
> you why it's refusing to talk to you. We document a few of the known
> constraints in our manual, but I'm sure there are more.
The fact that they seem to change the needed magical incantations
every point release doesn't help things either.
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