Re: initdb error: create shared memory segment: Function

I don't have my windows pc handy but I seem to remember something in the
readme about how postgres may crash if you try to use initdb with a
different locale other than C under cygwin.

Try initdb without specifying the locale. When you create the
individual databases you can specify the locale as Latin1 or something
else.

Mike

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 03:16, Larry Wipperman wrote:
> I have installed the latest Cygwin release on Windows 2000.
> After building and installing postgresql-7.4.3 (along with the PostGIS
> contribution package), when I execute initdb the following error occurs. A
> couple of days ago I installed the postgresql package from Cygwin and initdb
> worked fine. I executed configure before building as follows:
> ./configure --with-perl --with-java --enable-multibyte --with-CXX --prefix=/
> usr --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/doc/postgresql-$version.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Wipperman
>
> The error:
> bash-2.05b$ cygrunsrv -Q cygserver
> Service cygserver exists
> Type : Own Process
> Current State : Running
> Controls Accepted : Accept Stop
> bash-2.05b$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -W -E LATIN1
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "lkw".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: could
> not
> create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600).
>
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
>
>
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