On Oct 7, 2011, at 2:24 PM, René Fournier wrote:
> I've tried installation 8.4 and 9.0 on two different machines, and at the end can't start Postgresql. Here's the basic story:
You can't change shmall & shmmax after boot. They must be set during startup. If you're on a recent version of OS X, you do this in /etc/sysctl.conf.
Also the /usr/bin/postgres that you seen running is not where macports puts it and not the one you tried to start a couple of lines earlier, so you have something already installed on your system that is running a postgres instance.
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