Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
>> did 7.4 raise the bar on SysV IPC? On my other two boxes I haven't
>> tweaked SysV IPC at all (semmni is at 10) and I get initdb.
> Is this beta 1 or beta 2? Beta 1 has a bug which may require more
> shared resources than what is available.
Actually the bug is in beta2, not beta1. I'd suggest grabbing the
current nightly snapshot (see /dev on the ftp servers) in preference
to beta2, if you are on a machine with small SysV IPC limits.
We'll probably push out a beta3 as soon as the current IPv6 mess is
sorted.
regards, tom lane