Re: problem upgrading to PostgreSQL 7.4

For 7.4.2, you'll need ipc-daemon2 (note the "2"), which you can get from
the cygipc-2.02-1 package now available with Cygwin setup.

Cheers,
Claudio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Tejada [mailto:mantemu(at)terra(dot)com(dot)pe]
> Sent: Monday, 15 December 2003 11:49 AM
> To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [CYGWIN] problem upgrading to PostgreSQL 7.4
>
>
> I was working with PostgreSQL 7.3.4 easily.
> Yesterday I decided to made an upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.4.2.
> After upgrading from internet with the setup.exe I followed the normal
> procedure to inicializate the postgre. Observe that The initdb failed.
>
> -------------------------------------
> admin(at)alejo ~
> $ ipc-daemon &
> [1] 935405
>
> admin(at)alejo ~
> $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by
> user "admin".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in
> /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1... FATAL:
> could not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600).
>
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/share/postgresql/data"
>
> admin(at)alejo ~
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>
> My questions are:
> a) Why I get the FATAL error if I have started the ipc daemon
> before the
> initdb?
> b) How to fix this?
>
> Note.- This is no the first upgrade I made. The upgrading
> from version 7.2
> to 7.3 was without problem.
>
> I'll appreciate any answer
>
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