"Jouneau Luc" <Luc(dot)Jouneau(at)jouy(dot)inra(dot)fr> writes:
> We plan to install on a same Solaris server an Oracle8i and a PostgreSQL
> 7.3.4 database.
> During our impact tests, we encountered a situation where no more semaphore
> was available for Oracle server (while we where bulk loading on postgreSQL
> using copy statement. There was only one PG connection while there were many
> on Oracle server).
> I quote that our kernel configuration (semaphore and shared memory
> parameters) had been previously correctly positionned as required in Oracle
> and postgreSQL documentation.
Obviously not. I suspect you forgot to add up the semaphore
requirements of each package ...
regards, tom lane