Re: Building PG 8.2.3 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.4.9

Kevin Murphy <murphy2(at)speakeasy(dot)net> writes:
> Has anybody tried making a 64-bit PostgreSQL on an Apple XServe w/
> Intel Woodcrest CPU's? My compile works, but the 'make check' fails
> because of failure to allocate shared memory. There's plenty of SYSV
> memory available.

> creating template1 database in /usr/local/src/postgresql-8.2.3/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=1810432, 03600).

Hmm ... not sure if this is related, but there's something mighty fishy
about that "key" parameter. I'd expect to see key=5432001, or something
close to that depending on what port number you're using.

regards, tom lane