Re: Installation woes via Macports on Mac OS X 10.7

On Oct 7, 2011, at 3:48 PM, René Fournier wrote:

> Well, I changed them at the shell and in sysctl, and restarted (on both machines).

Check them at the shell. If they're not what you set in sysctl.conf, then your sysctl.conf is not correct, and since you can't change them after startup, you won't be able to launch pg with anything but a tiny shared buffers setting. There are restrictions on them, such as shmall being an even multiple of the VM page size, and some relationship or other between shmall & shmmax but I don't remember the details.

> So one thing that's odd, I have two version of postgresql apparently running (although I've removed 9.0 from Macports)… Not sure if this is the cause. Any other suggestions?

Yes. Figure out where the logging for the postgres instances you are trying to launch are going, and read the log messages. Or maybe they're just going to console--check that first.

You'll have a bit of difficulty getting help here, because you're not likely to find people who know what those wrappers (daemondo & postgresql84-server.wrapper) actually do, since they're not part of postgresql. One thing you should know, it is possible to have 2 versions of pg running at the same time, but it is not possible to have 2 versions running on the default port at the same time, or in the same data directory ("cluster" in pg terminology).

Also, you don't have any actual pg instances running there. What you have is some kind of wrapper that tries to launch pg. That wrapper is failing to launch, and either looping, or quitting and being relaunched--depending on how it is set up, which I have no idea about.

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