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>> Having to recompile initdb.c is probably not an option.
>
>initdb is just a shell script in existing releases.
Yes, you are right. By sheer habit I typed in cd ~/pgsql/src/bin.
> My bet is that they ate all available shmem, leaving none for
> Postgres... have you checked ipcs(1) to see what's already allocated?
I did that and found out that Oracle is actually installed on a different
box! *sheepish grin* The good news of all this is that Oracle would
probably have had the same problems (but been much more cryptic about
what exactly the problem was). Thanks for the replies: I am going to push
for a shmmax boost and go from there. Less pain in the long run.
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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