Timothy Perrigo <tperrigo(at)wernervas(dot)com> writes:
> On Jan 2, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think you probably are trying to run two postmasters at once. You
>> really need to increase the OS X memory limits, instead.
> No, I just ran pg_ctl status to check, and here was the output:
> pg_ctl: neither postmaster nor postgres running
Proves only that you weren't running another postmaster in the same data
directory. Try "ps auxww | grep post"
regards, tom lane