Re: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

Shelby Cain wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ---- From: Magnus Hagander
>> <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> To: Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> Cc: Terry Yapt <yapt(at)technovell(dot)com>;
>> pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007
>> 3:43:32 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to
>> shared memory (Win32)
>>
>>
>> 8.3 will have a new way to deal with shared mem on win32. It's the
>> same underlying tech, but we're no longer trying to squeeze it into
>> an emulation of sysv. With a bit of luck, that'll help :-)
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>
> Wild guess on my part... could that error be the result of an attempt
> to map shared memory into a process at a fixed location that just
> happens to already be occupied by a dll that Windows had decided to
> relocate?

Not that wild a guess, really :-) I'd say it's a very good possibility -
but I have no idea why it'd do that, since all backends load the same
DLLs at that stage.

//Magnus