On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Were you running a live PG instance on the box at the same time? OS X's
> default SHMMAX is small enough that PG will eat all of it by default,
> meaning that attempting to start a second postmaster on the box will
> fail.
Yeah - I was.
I stopped my live instance, reran 'make check', and make check passed.
Thanks for the pointers.
Tim Hart
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